A day after rejecting the BJP's offer for a junior minister's berth at the Centre, NCP (AP) president Ajit Pawar said that his party would get a Cabinet position in Narendra Modi's team within two months. He said by that time the party would have added two more Rajya Sabha MPs.

The NCP's non-participation in the Union Council of Ministers had raised speculations about an internal tussle within the party and neglect by the BJP. Opposition leaders said that the BJP was out to finish Ajit Pawar's party. Addressing the party's rank and file at the foundation day event in Mumbai on Monday, Pawar said that the speculations were not true.