Updated On: 05 May, 2023 01:41 PM IST | ronak mastakar
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers on Friday were seen celebrating outside the party office in Mumbai after NCP`s committee rejected Sharad Pawar`s decision to step down as party chief (Pics/Sayyed Sameer Abedi)

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A committee set up to choose the new Nationalist Congress Party chief has rejected incumbent president Sharad Pawar`s decision to step down
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"The committee has unanimously passed a resolution. It unanimously rejects his decision to step down and urges him to continue as party president," senior party leader Praful Patel said after a meeting of the committee

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"We will meet Pawar saheb with this resolution and request him to reconsider his decision," Patel, who is also the vice president and convenor of committee said
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As the meeting was underway, several NCP workers wearing caps with the message "I am with saheb" demanded that Pawar reconsider his decision

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Sharad Pawar on Tuesday sprang a surprise by announcing his decision to quit as president of the party he founded and headed since 1999 when he left the Congress to chart his own political course
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