New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- In an apparent reference to his uncle, Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said he would have easily become the president of the Nationalist Congress Party had he been the son of the "senior" leader. The statement evoked an angry response from former state minister Jitendra Awhad, a Sharad Pawar loyalist, who said Ajit would not have risen so quickly in Maharashtra politics if he had not been the senior Pawar's nephew. Speaking at a party function, Ajit Pawar said he was accused of "stealing" the party founded by Sharad Pawar, but the Election Commission of India and Maharashtra assembly Speaker gave rulings in his favour (affirming that the Ajit faction was the real NCP). "Had I been born to the sen...