Ajit secures 8th win from Baramati, says he was ‘hurt’ by Sharad Pawar’s wife

At the concluding time rally astatine Lendhi Patti crushed successful Baramati city, Pratibha Pawar had herself turned up and was seen carrying a committee with words written successful Marathi, highlighting that “wherever the aged antheral goes, thing bully happens”.

Though the Sharad Pawar household believed that it wold beryllium a close fight, Ajit defeated his ain nephew Yugendra Pawar by a borderline of implicit 1 lakh votes.

Ajit Pawar, the nationalist president of NCP, won Baramati spot for an eighth consecutive time, securing 1,81,132 votes. Yugendra had to stay contented with 80,233 votes.

When determination were murmurs that Yugendra would beryllium fielded by Sharad Pawar’s NCP against him, Ajit Pawar announced helium whitethorn not contention and that his younger son, Jay Pawar, would bash truthful alternatively from Baramati. However, the NCP persuaded him. “Ajit Pawar volition contention the assembly polls and lone from Baramati. He volition pb the enactment from the beforehand connected the canvass turf,” Sunil Tatkare, State president of NCP, had told this paper.

On Saturday, erstwhile helium was asked what proposal helium would similar to springiness his nephew, Ajit Pawar refused to comment.

However, Yugendra’s aunt Supriya Sule, who is Baramati MP, said her nephew had conscionable entered the canvass turf and has a agelong mode to go. “He not lone fought bravely against nary different than the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, but besides brought the decision borderline down compared to the past elections. In the the 2019 assembly elections, Ajit Pawar had won the Baramati spot by implicit 1.67 lakh votes. This time, the borderline reduced by astir 50,000 votes. For a archetypal timer similar Yugendra, it was inactive an accomplishment successful itself. He enactment up a courageous combat and went to each nook and country of Baramati. He explained his imaginativeness and his plans for pushing the improvement of Baramati forward,” she said.

Speaking successful Baramati, Sunetra Pawar, woman of Ajit Pawar said, “People of Baramati person reposed their religion successful Ajit Pawar due to the fact that of the improvement enactment that helium has carried out… I privation to convey the radical of Baramati for extending their enactment to Ajit dada. This is the triumph of the radical of Baramati… I privation the aforesaid (Ajit Pawar to beryllium CM) arsenic the nationalist wants…”

A time earlier ballot counting, some Yugendra and Sule were expecting it would beryllium a adjacent fight, which yet proved to beryllium otherwise.

Unlike the Lok Sabha elections wherever helium targeted his relative Supriya Sule arsenic a non-performing MP for 15 years, this clip Ajit Pawar avoided targeting his hostile and nephew Yugendra. “I had purposely decided not to criticise anyone, alternatively I decided to item my improvement work,” Ajit Pawar said. His disapproval of his ain relative Supriya Sule during the Lok Sabha predetermination had drawn wide ridicule for him from antithetic quarters,

After helium fielded his woman from the Baramati Lok Sabha spot against Sule and went each retired to decision her with the assistance of BJP and Shiv Sena, the Sharad Pawar campy had deed backmost astatine Ajit Pawar by fielding a rookie Yugendra Pawar against him.

A bulk of the Pawar household members campaigned for Yugendra including Pratibha Pawar. Yugendra himself said though helium was knew to canvass turf, helium was already successful interaction with voters of Baramati. “I person been going astir Baramati and I americium good alert of the problems they are facing. Be it jobs oregon h2o shortage, Baramatikars are besides grappling with galore issues. I would similar to code them all,” helium had said during campaigning.