Regardless of an all-out effort by uncle Sharad Pawar and his get together NCP (SP) to defeat him from Baramati meeting seat, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar overcame the problem to emerge victorious with a margin of over one lakh votes. In victory, Ajit Pawar mentioned he was “damage” by the truth that his uncle Sharad Pawar’s spouse Pratibha Pawar campaigned arduous to make sure his defeat.
“I used to be damage by the truth that Pratibha Kaki campaigned towards me. She went home to deal with looking for votes for my nephew… After I contested the Baramati election for 35 years, she by no means campaigned for me… However this time she campaigned towards me,” Ajit Pawar informed reporters in Mumbai in his first response after his victory.
On the concluding day rally at Lendhi Patti floor in Baramati metropolis, Pratibha Pawar had herself turned up and was seen carrying a board with phrases written in Marathi, highlighting that “wherever the previous man goes, one thing good occurs”.
Although the Sharad Pawar household believed that it wold be a shut battle, Ajit defeated his personal nephew Yugendra Pawar by a margin of over one lakh votes.
Ajit Pawar, the nationwide president of NCP, received Baramati seat for an eighth consecutive time, securing 1,81,132 votes. Yugendra needed to stay content material with 80,233 votes.
When there have been murmurs that Yugendra can be fielded by Sharad Pawar’s NCP towards him, Ajit Pawar introduced he could not contest and that his youthful son, Jay Pawar, would accomplish that as a substitute from Baramati. Nevertheless, the NCP persuaded him. “Ajit Pawar will contest the meeting polls and solely from Baramati. He’ll lead the get together from the entrance on the ballot turf,” Sunil Tatkare, State president of NCP, had informed this paper.
On Saturday, when he was requested what recommendation he wish to give his nephew, Ajit Pawar refused to remark.
Nevertheless, Yugendra’s aunt Supriya Sule, who’s Baramati MP, mentioned her nephew had simply entered the ballot turf and has a protracted method to go. “He not solely fought bravely towards none apart from the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, but additionally introduced the defeat margin down in comparison with the final elections. Within the the 2019 meeting elections, Ajit Pawar had received the Baramati seat by over 1.67 lakh votes. This time, the margin lowered by round 50,000 votes. For a primary timer like Yugendra, it was nonetheless an achievement in itself. He put up a brave battle and went to each nook and nook of Baramati. He defined his imaginative and prescient and his plans for pushing the event of Baramati ahead,” she mentioned.
Talking in Baramati, Sunetra Pawar, spouse of Ajit Pawar mentioned, “Individuals of Baramati have reposed their religion in Ajit Pawar due to the event work that he has carried out… I need to thank the folks of Baramati for extending their help to Ajit dada. That is the victory of the folks of Baramati… I would like the identical (Ajit Pawar to be CM) as the general public desires…”
A day earlier than vote counting, each Yugendra and Sule had been anticipating it could be an in depth battle, which finally proved to be in any other case.
In contrast to the Lok Sabha elections the place he focused his cousin Supriya Sule as a non-performing MP for 15 years, this time Ajit Pawar averted focusing on his opponent and nephew Yugendra. “I had purposely determined to not criticise anybody, as a substitute I made a decision to spotlight my improvement work,” Ajit Pawar mentioned. His criticism of his personal cousin Supriya Sule through the Lok Sabha election had drawn broad ridicule for him from completely different quarters,
After he fielded his spouse from the Baramati Lok Sabha seat towards Sule and went all out to defeat her with the assistance of BJP and Shiv Sena, the Sharad Pawar camp had hit again at Ajit Pawar by fielding a rookie Yugendra Pawar towards him.
A majority of the Pawar relations campaigned for Yugendra together with Pratibha Pawar. Yugendra himself mentioned although he was knew to ballot turf, he was already in contact with voters of Baramati. “I’ve been going round Baramati and I’m properly conscious of the issues they’re going through. Be it jobs or water scarcity, Baramatikars are additionally grappling with quite a few points. I wish to handle all of them,” he had mentioned throughout campaigning.
