Days after his “roadblock” comment cast a shadow on the possible merger between the two Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) factions, NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday presented his soft side as a family patriarch, saying the current priority is to support each other before taking further decisions.

Sharad Pawar held a closed-door meeting with the sons of the late Ajit Pawar and later visited the home of Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar in Baramati to pay tribute to her husband, exactly a week after he was killed in a plane crash.