Sharad Pawar Quits As NCP Chief, Party Gets Him To Rethink | Sharad Pawar Resination | English News
It didn’t take long for the rethink on the resignation. Allowing the hysteria to last just a few hours seemed more in keeping with Sharad Pawar’s style than his dramatic announcement on Tuesday evening that he was resigning from the presidentship of the party he had founded and which is identified with him. One didn’t think the NCP chief, whose pronouncements are known more for their practicality than their emotional appeal, was the kind who’d encourage the anarchistic melodrama that invariably follows such announcements. Old timers would recall the tearful scenes at Janata Party leader and Karnataka CM Ramakrishna Hegde’s many resignations in the ’80s. Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray indulged in this gimmick twice, but then, he always encouraged the cult that grew around him. Sonia Gandhi too, offered her resignation in 1999; ironically, Pawar was the main reason for this. She stayed on — Pawar was expelled and founded the NCP.
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