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AJIT VS THE PAWARS

aharashtra deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader may be facing not just a political battle but a personal one too in family stronghold Baramati. Ajit, who is intent on fielding wife Sunetra against cousin and three-time Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule, is finding himself increasinglyvillagers in Baramati, Shrinivas said, “Some of my friends are saying the coming years will be of Dada (Ajit), not Saheb (Pawar). This thought caused me a lot of agony as we do not value an aged person because we want to take benefits from another person for the next 10 years. Those who think like this are very nalayak (useless).” He also spoke about how the senior Pawar had done so much for everyone. Though Shrinivas’s son Yugendra said his father’s words had been twisted and that, at the end of the day, the two were brothers and supported each other in their personal lives, he too is campaigning for his aunt.

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