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Bidhuri nominated to NCP panel

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar has nominated the president of the party's Delhi unit, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, to the NCP Working Committee. Mr. Bidhuri was nominated president of the Delhi unit only last month.

A sitting member of the Delhi Assembly, Mr. Bidhuri's new appointment is being seen by political observers as an attempt by the NCP to project itself as a party that is promoting the cause of not only farmers but also the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). Mr. Bidhuri is a Gujjar by caste and is considered one of the most prominent leaders of the Gujjar community after the demise of former Union Minister Rajesh Pilot some years ago.

Sources in the party described his appointment as an indication of the party's resolve to consolidate its base in Delhi and prepare the party and its allies for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections scheduled for early next year. Mr. Bidhuri has been able to rope in former Prime Minister V.P. Singh and Jan Morcha president Raj Babbar along with leaders of the Left parties for the proposed new front to be floated in Delhi during the next few months.

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