Pawar to meet NCP workers at Amravati tomorrow

NCP chief Sharad Pawar will be meeting party workers here tomorrow ahead of the ensuing local body polls.
The meet will be held at Deshmukh lawn on Shegaon- Rahatgon road here and will begin by noon, Maharashtra NCP Vice President Wasudhatai Deshmukh told reporters here.
Besides Pawar, other NCP leaders like Praful Patel, Ajit Pawar, Sunil Tatkare, Leader of Opposition in state assembly Dhananjay Munde, Jayant Patil, Nawab Malik, Arun Gujarati, Jaydatta Kshirsagar, Shashikant Shinde and Anil Deshmukh will be present.
During Pawar's last stint as Maharashtra Chief Minister,
Mumbai was rocked by serial bomb blasts in March, 1993 followed by the Gowari stampede in 1994 in Nagpur.

After parting ways with Sonia Gandhi over the foreign origin issue, Pawar in 1999 formed the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). His party, however, struck alliance with Congress and ruled Maharashtra for 15 years till the BJP-led government came to power in 2014.

In 2014, Pawar got elected to the Rajya Sabha, enabling his daughter Supriya to contest from his Baramati Lok Sabha seat.
Pawar has also occupied key positions on the cricket board, including that of BCCI and ICC President, besides other sports associations.
As the veteran politician is set to complete half a century of public life, the question being asked is who will be his political heir.

The query was recently put to none other than Supriya, an NCP MP, and pat came the reply "time will decide".
"For Yashwantrao Chavan (first Chief Minister of Maharashtra), Pawarsaheb was his 'manasputra' (political heir). However, time will decide who will be his (Pawar's) political heir in future," Supriya added.