India, Jan. 9 -- Days ahead of the civic body polls in Maharashtra, the state's deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar said that workers of both the factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the one with him and the other one with this uncle Sharad Pawar, want to reunite and that the tensions within the Pawar clan have been resolved.

"The workers of both parties want to unite. The two NCPs are together now. All tensions in our family have ended," he told NDTV.

The reunion of the Pawar family comes after the Nationalist Congress Party, founded by Sharad Pawar, split in 2023 when Ajit Pawar broke away from his uncle along with other senior party members and joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), claimed the original party name a...