India, Feb. 15 -- Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday dismissed the petitions to disqualify MLAs belonging to Ajit Pawa'sr faction, ruling that his faction substantially outnumbered the Sharad Pawar faction in the state legislature.

"I hold that the Ajit Pawar faction enjoys an overwhelming majority within the NCP," Narwekar declared while delivering a verdict on the disqualification petitions filed by the two factions within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) against each other.

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