MUMBAI: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has chosen to stand firm with Dhananjay Munde, the NCP minister caught in a political firestorm over the murder of a Beed sarpanch in December last year. On Monday Pawar, Nationalist Congress party chief, was closeted with Munde for an hour in his office in the state secretariat, and in the evening, he drove …
One of the most iconic images of this Assembly election in Maharashtra is that of a drenched NCP Chief Sharad Pawar addressing a rally in Satara in Western Maharashtra. When Bhonsle, a descendant of Maratha icon Chhatrapati Shivaji defected to the BJP, it was a personal blow to Pawar. He fielded reliable party veteran Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil, who had given …
