Kolhapur, Aug 17:  Nationalist Congress party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar will hold a public rally at the historic Dasara Chowk here in Maharashtra on Friday.

Pawar told a delegation of district NCP office bearers that he will visit Kolhapur on August 25.

Pawar’s visit will be his first after the split in the party in which NCP senior leader Ajit Pawar joined the Shinde-Phadnvis goverment along with others and took oath as second deputy chief minister.