High-profile hospital visits to Sharad Pawar spark merger speculation in Maharashtra

Mumbai, Nov 6 (UNI) A flurry of high-profile visits and phone calls to Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital, where Nationalist Congress Party (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar is currently undergoing medical evaluation, has triggered intense speculation over a potential political realignment or a merger of the two NCP factions in Maharashtra. The political grapevine went into overdrive after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) National Working President Praful Patel held an hour-long meeting with Sharad Pawar in his hospital room. According to sources, Pawar directly inquired about the high-stakes meeting held in New Delhi on November 1, where top NCP leaders including Patel, Sunil…