Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday reacted to Ajit Pawar's decision to join the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government as a deputy CM. Sharad Pawar, at a press conference said that the episode would be new for others, but not for him, reported the PTI.

"This is not a new thing. The party I was leading in 1980 had 58 MLAs, later all left and only 6 MLAs left, but I strengthened the numbers and those who left me lost in their constituencies," the NCP chief said on Ajit Pawar joining the NDA government in Maharashtra, according to the ANI.