Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) faction's official X (formerly Twitter) handle was suspended. X blocked the handle after complaints lodged by leaders of Sharad Pawar-led faction of the NCP.
An account on X - NCP Speaks 1 - was created to convey important announcements. The account was representing Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's group under the name - 'NCP Speaks 1'.
The Sharad Pawar-led faction of the NCP claimed the account 'NCP Speaks 1' was a copy of the original NCP account - '@NCPspeaks'.
Ajit Pawar on Wednesday said that the complaint was lodged by leaders of his uncle Sharad Pawar-led NCP group for using the same name for their X handle.
NCP split into two factions after Ajit Pawar on July to revolted against his uncle and party chief Sharad Pawar by joining NDA. Junior Pawar claimed he owned the party and took oath as the eputy chief minister of Maharashtra. Nine NCP MLAs also took oath as ministers in the Eknath government. NCP MLAs who joined Ajit Pawar were Chagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse-Patil, Hasan Mushriff, Dhananjay Munde, Dharmaraj Atram, Aditi Tatkare, Sanjay Bansode and Anil Patil. Since there is rivalry between the two factions to capture offices and other party logistics and now the fight moved to the social media platform.
