The NCP patriarch founded his party in 1999 when he split the Congress. On July 2 this year, his nephew Ajit Pawar split the NCP by aligning himself and other senior leaders with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena government led by CM Eknath Shinde
Everyone knows who founded the NCP, says Sharad Pawar
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