The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will issue a show cause notice to the party MLA Sangram Jagtap for his purported remarks on Deepavali shopping, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Saturday (October 11, 2025).

The NCP chief was responding to media reports accusing Mr. Jagtap of appealing to people to buy exclusively from Hindu shopkeepers and traders.

“This statement (by Jagtap) is completely wrong. When the party’s policies and objectives have already been decided, no MLA should make such remarks. This is not acceptable to the party. We will send him a show-cause notice,” Mr. Pawar told reporters.

Mr. Jagtap represents the Ahmednagar Assembly constituency.

“Till Arunkaka Jagtap (Sangram Jagtap’s father) was alive, everything was fine in Ahilyanagar (formerly A

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