"For us, it is a closed chapter. Ajit Pawar has already apologised and there is no question of he resigning," state NCP chief Madhukar Pichad told reporters after a party meeting, attended by party supremo and Union Minister Sharad Pawar and his daughter, MP Supriya Sule, among others.u00a0

Pichad said MNS president Raj Thackeray had made worse comments publicly in the past. "Opposition is playing politics over Ajit Pawar's remarks and NCP will respond to it politically," Pichad said.