Bhujbal gets walkover in contest for Dy CM
Factionalism came to the fore in the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) when the two and half month old party was in the process of electing the leader of the legislature Party.

The party is over for Pawar as Sangma sulks
By joining hands with the Congress in Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar may have managed to save his party from splitting in the State but the future of his party at the all India level now hangs in a balance.

Kalyan dares inert BJP to sack him
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh's challenge to the BJP Central leadership to remove him if it so wanted, has failed to break the latter's inertia.

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