Maharashtra’s Baramati, the pocketborough of the undivided Nationalist Congress Get together, will see one other battle between the 2 factions of the social gathering and the household — with Ajit Pawar himself within the fray. Going through him can be Sharad Pawar’s grandnephew Yugendra Pawar, the son of Ajit Pawar’s brother Shrinivas Pawar.
Throughout the Lok Sabha election, he had campaigned for his aunt and Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule Sule, and led the social gathering’s Swabhiman Yatra from Baramati in September.
For the Ajit Pawar faction, that is the large probability to regain the face it misplaced within the Lok Sabha election held earlier this 12 months. Not solely did the social gathering fail to win greater than one of many 4 seats it contested, Ajit Pawar’s spouse Sunetra Pawar had been trounced by his cousin Supriya Sule from Baramati.
Concerning that election, Ajit Pawar had later expressed regrets, saying he mustn’t have fielded his spouse towards his cousin, or certainly, left the household.
One mustn’t enable politics to enter house, he had instructed a Marathi information channel shortly after the election.
“I really like all my sisters. One should not enable politics to enter properties. I made a mistake in fielding Sunetra towards my sister. This should not have occurred. However the parliamentary board (of NCP) decided. Now I really feel it was unsuitable,” Ajit Pawar had stated, elevating hypothesis of a potential rapprochement.
However two months on, he’s up towards his nephew from the identical seat. Yugendra Pawar, an alumni of Boston’s Northeastern College, has been prepping for his political launch beneath Sharad Pawar and is understood to be near him.
Ajit Pawar has been representing Baramnati since 1991, when the NCP was not fashioned and he and his uncle, Sharad Pawar, had been a part of the Congress.
This time, he had stated he was “not ” in contesting elections any extra. Amid hypothesis that his son Jay Pawar would contest from Baramati, he had stated that might be his social gathering’s choice.
“It’s democracy. I’m not excited about that (contesting elections) as I’ve contested seven or eight elections. If the individuals and supporters assume so, the (NCP) parliamentary board will focus on it,” he stated. If the parliamentary board and “individuals” felt that Jay must be fielded, the NCP was able to discipline him, he had added. However his identify was there within the social gathering’s first checklist introduced.
Ajit Pawar’s elder son Parth Pawar had contested the Maval Lok Sabha seat in 2019 however misplaced by a heavy margin.
Sharad Pawar had based the NCP with former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Sangma and Tariq Anwar in 1999 after their expulsion from the Congress.
In July final 12 months, Ajit Pawar – complaining about Sharad Pawar’s management — had walked away with a majority of MLAs and supported the BJP-Shiv Sena authorities led by Eknath Shinde.
