<p>New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) on Saturday appointed senior leader P C Chacko as its national working president.</p>.<p>Chacko, an old Sharad Pawar loyalist, joined the NCP in 2021 after parting ways with the Congress.</p>.<p>The NCP-SP also appointed Rajiv Jha as the national general secretary of the party in charge of office administration.</p>.<p>Senior leader K K Sharma, who had joined the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, returned to the Sharad Pawar-led outfit. Earlier this week, Dheeraj Sharma, the president of the youth wing of the NCP-SP, joined the Ajit Pawar-led NCP.</p>.Some NCP (SP) MLAs trying to get in touch with Congress for merger: Sunil Tatkare.<p>The Sharad Pawar-led party, which was registered earlier this year, also decided to celebrate June 10 as its foundation day.</p>.<p>It was on June 10, 1999, that Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P A Sangma formed the Nationalist Congress Party after they were expelled from the Congress for raising the issue of Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin issue.</p>.<p>Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar walked away with a majority of NCP MLAs to join the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.</p>.<p>Subsequently, the Election Commission recognised the Ajit Pawar faction as the real NCP and allotted the poll symbol 'clock' to it.</p>.<p>The Sharad Pawar-led faction was allotted the name NCP-SP in February this year.</p>.<p>However, NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar has decided to celebrate June 10 as the foundation day of the party, contending that it was the day he had formed the NCP.</p>.<p>The Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar-led outfits are locked in a legal battle in the Supreme Court for control of the original NCP.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) on Saturday appointed senior leader P C Chacko as its national working president.</p>.<p>Chacko, an old Sharad Pawar loyalist, joined the NCP in 2021 after parting ways with the Congress.</p>.<p>The NCP-SP also appointed Rajiv Jha as the national general secretary of the party in charge of office administration.</p>.<p>Senior leader K K Sharma, who had joined the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, returned to the Sharad Pawar-led outfit. Earlier this week, Dheeraj Sharma, the president of the youth wing of the NCP-SP, joined the Ajit Pawar-led NCP.</p>.Some NCP (SP) MLAs trying to get in touch with Congress for merger: Sunil Tatkare.<p>The Sharad Pawar-led party, which was registered earlier this year, also decided to celebrate June 10 as its foundation day.</p>.<p>It was on June 10, 1999, that Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P A Sangma formed the Nationalist Congress Party after they were expelled from the Congress for raising the issue of Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin issue.</p>.<p>Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar walked away with a majority of NCP MLAs to join the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.</p>.<p>Subsequently, the Election Commission recognised the Ajit Pawar faction as the real NCP and allotted the poll symbol 'clock' to it.</p>.<p>The Sharad Pawar-led faction was allotted the name NCP-SP in February this year.</p>.<p>However, NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar has decided to celebrate June 10 as the foundation day of the party, contending that it was the day he had formed the NCP.</p>.<p>The Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar-led outfits are locked in a legal battle in the Supreme Court for control of the original NCP.</p>