Why Maharashtra NCP president Tatkare is under pressure from Parth Pawar

Party’s State President Sunil Tatkare and Parth Pawar. (File Photos) 6 min readMumbaiAug 11, 2026 04:38 PM IST First published on: Aug 11, 2026 at 04:38 PM IST As the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) continues to deal with the fallout of an internal power struggle, a familiar political figure is increasingly at the centre of it. Days after he met with Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar and her son Parth, a Rajya Sabha MP, poll strategist-turned-newly elected Bihar MLA Prashant Kishor’s suggestion that the party change its state leadership has turned into bad news for the party’s state president Sunil Tatkare, adding a new dimension to the growing contest over who controls the NCP after Ajit Pawar’s death.