Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will meet MLAs from his party in Mumbai today; they have asked him to take a final call on whether or not his nephew and senior party leader Ajit Pawar should go ahead with his resignation as deputy Chief Minister in the Congress-NCP state government. Ahead of that meeting, the NCP chief will meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Tension has been brewing between the Congress and the NCP ever since the Chief Minister announced his intent to bring in a white paper on the alleged 72,000 crore irrigation scam that led to the resignation of Ajit Pawar.

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