BJP has given contract to Ajit Pawar
“If you don’t like our decision (to join the Shinde-led government), then why did you call us for a meeting,” Ajit said, adding that his faction will contest from the Baramati Lok Sabha seat. Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule is currently representing this seat in the Lok Sabha. Welcoming his cousin’s decision, Sule said, “I have always been of the opinion that someone should contest against me.” On former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s claim that he (Ajit Pawar) NCP founder Sharad Pawar has been given a ‘betel nut’ by BJP to end his political career, Ajit Pawar said Deshmukh remained with the Sharad Pawar-led faction because if he had switched sides, he would have got a ministerial berth. not get.