NCP merger buzz revives as Parth Pawar, Praful Patel meet Sharad Pawar in Delhi

2 min readJul 28, 2026 01:26 PM IST Praful Patel and Parth Pawar (not in pic) met Sharad Pawar in Delhi, reigniting NCP merger talks. (Photo credit: @praful_patel/X)A meeting between Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders Parth Pawar and Praful Patel with NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar in New Delhi on Wednesday has once again set off speculation over a possible merger of the rival NCP factions. The meeting comes days after Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week in the backdrop of the protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). While neither side has disclosed the agenda of the discussions, the back-to-back meetings have fueled political chatter on efforts to bring the two NCP factions together may have gathered pace.The leaders did not elaborate on the discussions. The