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Rahul Narvekar, Shiv Sena’s most visible face and party spokesperson, moves out and joins NCP Rahul Narvekar with Deputy CM and NCP senior Ajit Pawar in Mumbai on Monday.

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n what is being seen as a major upset, Rahul Narvekar, Shiv Sena spokesperson and close aide of Aditya Thackeray, yesterday joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Narvekar, who recently withdrew his candidature from the state Legislative Council elections, joined the NCP in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and other senior NCP leaders. He will contest the Lok Sabha election on the party’s ticket from the Maval constituency. Narvekar, who happens to be the son-in-law of senior NCP leader and former Min-

ister Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar, was the Sena spokesperson and was adept at explaining the party line to the national media and electronic channels. He had therefore become the party’s face on most English language news channels since quite a long time. He was also seen as the Man Friday of party president Uddhav Thackeray’s son, Aditya, and was reportedly running the Yuva Sena with him. However, he had been apparently sulking over the withdrawal of his MLC nomination and had met NCP chief Sharad Pawar last week. Speaking to reporters after joining the NCP, Narvekar

said, “When people from your own party try to bring you down and make attempts to ensure your defeat, then you are left with no option. I was extremely hurt with the way Shiv Sena has handled certain sensitive issues, especially after my candidature was declared. I am disturbed about the withdrawal issue. I think my party should have clarified to me about it. Just because the Sena leadership kept mum, I was under the fire from all sides for no reason. Here I am making it clear that I withdrew my candidature after being told to do so by the Sena leadership. “The mental turmoil reached such an extent that I

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Police will strongly oppose further By Philip Varghese bail plea by doctor wo months after the four T persons, including a docaccused of many tor, were arrested by the Mumbai police and later reillegal abortions leased on interim relief by the

was forced to take the decision to snap the ties with the party. Truly speaking, I am the victim of the internal politics of the Sena,” he added further. Gajanan Babar, the sitting MP from Maval, recently quit Shiv Sena after the3 party denied him the ticket. Now Narvekar will take on Shrirang Barne of Sena and Maruti Bhapkar of the AAP in Maval. In another related development, shortly before Narvekar formally joined the NCP, a group of Shiv sainiks staged a protest outside the state NCP office near the

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