NCP merger row: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said only Sharad Pawar and Sunetra Pawar could clarify whether the two NCP factions would merge. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said only Sharad Pawar and Sunetra Pawar could clarify whether the two Nationalist Congress Party NCP factions would merge adding that neither leader had informed the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP about any such move reported the PTIHe asserted that any.