Supriya Sule Breaks Silence On Prashant Kishor’s Meeting With Ajit Pawar-Faction NCP: ‘Internal Matter’

Published 9 August 2026 · india

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News india Supriya Sule Breaks Silence On Prashant Kishor’s Meeting With Ajit Pawar-Faction NCP: ‘Internal Matter’ Supriya Sule Breaks Silence On Prashant Kishor’s Meeting With Ajit Pawar-Faction NCP: ‘Internal Matter’ Published By, Last Updated: August 09, 2026, 11:02 IST Prashant Kishor met Nationalist Congress Party chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar and her son, MP Parth Pawar recently. Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) MP Supriya Sule (Image: PTI) NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule on Saturday said it was for the rival Nationalist Congress Party faction to decide whether it wanted to work with political strategist Prashant Kishor. Sule said Kishor was a personal friend and praised his political work in Bihar, where she said he had recently won a “very big battle" in the Bankipur Assembly bypoll. ‘Kishor has been a good personal friend’ Speaking to reporters, the Baramati MP said she had known Kishor for several years and had closely followed his work.

“Prashant Kishor has been a good personal friend of mine for several years. I have closely followed his work and I have never hidden our friendship," Sule said. However, she stressed that Kishor worked independently in his professional capacity and that the decision on whom he wanted to work with rested with him. “Whether the Ajit Pawar-led NCP wants to work with Prashant Kishor or not is their internal matter," Sule said. Her remarks came earlier this week after Kishor met Nationalist Congress Party chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar and her son, MP Parth Pawar. Sule praises Kishor’s Bihar work Sule also backed Kishor’s political work in Bihar, saying he had overcome a formidable challenge in the Bankipur Assembly by-election. She said Kishor had won a “very big battle" despite facing the BJP’s formidable political machine.

Sule also referred to data showing that the BJP performed poorly even in the booth where its national president Nitin Nabin is registered as a voter. “Given this situation, we should appreciate Prashant Kishor. He is hardworking and has worked with several political parties over the years," she said. ‘Something was seriously wrong with me’ Sule used the booth-level results to underline the importance of political performance at the grassroots. She said that if her party had been in power from the local level to Delhi and had still recorded a negative result in its own booth in Katewadi in Baramati, she would have taken it as a serious warning. “If we had been in power from the local level to Delhi, and if there had been a negative result in our own booth in Katewadi in Baramati, I would have felt that something was seriously wrong with me," she said.