The status battle of Baramati in Maharashtra has the NCP’s Ajit Pawar within the lead over his nephew and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar chief) Yugendra Pawar.
The competition is essential for the 65-year-old Ajit Pawar, who cut up the Sharad Pawar-led NCP final yr and walked throughout the aisle to the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) coalition, due to his spouse Sunetra Pawar’s loss to his cousin Supriya Sule within the Baramati Lok Sabha seat earlier this yr.
Baramati is a stronghold of the Pawar household.
This yr’s Maharashtra Meeting elections are a battle of survival for each factions of the NCP, who’re out to show that they’ve the help of voters. The Lok Sabha polls have been a setback for the Ajit Pawar group, which had managed to win just one out of the 4 seats it had contested. The Sharad Pawar-led NCP had, nevertheless, put up a dominant present and gained eight of the ten constituencies it had put up candidates in, rising because the occasion with the most effective strike fee within the state.