{"id":236943,"date":"2023-05-02T13:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T08:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=236943"},"modified":"2023-05-02T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T08:09:57","slug":"pawar-steps-down-as-ncp-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/pawar-steps-down-as-ncp-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawar steps down as NCP chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a move that came as a surprise to many, veteran politician Sharad Pawar on Tuesday resigned as president of the Nationalist Congress Party, the political outfit he floated more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have decided to step down as the president of the NCP,&#8221; Pawar said at a press briefing. His announcement was greeted by loud exclamations from the gathering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pawar, however, made it clear that he was not taking a backseat from politics. &#8220;My colleagues, even though I am stepping down from the post of president, I am not retiring from public life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NCP leaders refused to step down from the dias and shouted slogans for Pawar to continue. Some leaders were in teams as Pawar resigned from the post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The topmost leaders are trying to convince Pawar to take back the resignation. As sloganeering continued Pawar sat in silence on the stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ajit Pawar said that the panel will decide on the new chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that came as a surprise to many, veteran politician Sharad Pawar on Tuesday resigned as president of the Nationalist Congress Party, the political outfit he floated more than two decades ago. &#8220;I have decided to step down as the president of the NCP,&#8221; Pawar said at a press briefing. His announcement was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[9789,7759,52627],"class_list":["post-236943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-maharastra","tag-ncp","tag-sharad-pawar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pawar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236945,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236943\/revisions\/236945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}