Mumbai:  Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar has immediately dissolved all of the party's national-level departments and cells, the party's general secretary Praful Patel on Wednesday.

Patel used a microblogging site to confirm the NCP's decision and to say that the development had the chief NCP's support. All National level Departments and Cells of @NCPspeaks, with the exception of the Nationalist Women's Congress, Nationalist Youth Congress, and Nationalist Students Congress, stand dissolved with immediate effect, with the agreement of our National President Hon'ble Shri Sharad Pawar Saheb.

The Nationalist Women's Congress, Nationalist Youth Congress, and Nationalist Students Congress were the outliers. "This decision does not apply to Maharashtra or any other state unit, Patel added
According to reports, the decision was made in an effort to reorganise the NCP structure in the wake of the recent dissolution of the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra, which was made up of the Congress, NCP, and Shiv Sena.

The NCP was a significant component of the Shiv Sena-led coalition government that disintegrated in late June as a result of a mutiny by some Shiv Sena MLAs led by Eknath Shinde against Uddhav Thackeray.

After the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was overthrown by Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde's 10-day uprising, a new Maharashtra government took office.

Eknath Shinde, the chief minister of Maharashtra, said on Monday that he has the support of 18 Shiv Sena MPs, not just 12. Shinde expressed confidence that the Supreme Court will decide in favour of his government on July 20 while in Delhi for a meeting over OBCs in the state.

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