Despite recuperating in the Breach Candy Hospital, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar is keeping a close watch on the national and state political developments, a top leader said here on Friday.

Shiv Sena MP and Chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut made the observation after calling on Pawar at the hospital where he is convalescing after an emergency endoscopy procedure performed to extricate a gall-bladder stone on March 30.