27/03/2026
When NCP-SP MP Supriya Sule publicly credited CM Devendra Fadnavis with “carrying forward Narendra Dabholkar’s legacy,” she exposed not just her political naivety but the chronic disease of her party, an irresistible gravitational pull toward the ruling establishment.
Dabholkar, a rationalist shot dead on a Pune bridge in 2013, still awaits real justice. The masterminds remain unidentified and free. The trial dragged for nearly a decade. And Fadnavis, who has held the Home Ministry for a significant stretch of this period, bears institutional accountability for that failure. To praise this man using Dabholkar’s name is not tribute, it is insult dressed as compliment.
This is, however, no accident. It is Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar NCP-SP’s default mode. Whether inside Parliament or before television cameras, Supriya Sule and her party repeatedly find occasions to thank, praise, appeal to, or softly align with BJP leadership, making one genuinely wonder what exactly they are opposing.