NCP leaders, workers want party patriarch Sharad Pawar to contest bypolls for Satara Lok Sabha constituency
FirstpostNCP leaders and workers from the Satara Lok Sabha constituency want party chief Sharad Pawar to contest the 21 October bypoll from the seat in Western Maharashtra, sources said on Wednesday Mumbai: NCP leaders and workers from the Satara Lok Sabha constituency want party chief Sharad Pawar to contest the 21 October bypoll from the seat in Western Maharashtra, sources said on Wednesday. A request in this regard was made to Pawar at the NCP’s core committee meeting held here and attended by its key leaders, including Maharashtra unit chief Jayant Patil, the sources said. The bypoll has been necessitated after the sitting NCP MP from the Western Maharashtra seat, Udayanraje Bhosale, jumped the ship and joined the ruling BJP earlier this month. Seven-time Lok Sabha member Pawar last contested the parliamentary polls in 2009.