Even as Maharashtra is all set to have a BJP-led government for another five years, the saffron party's attempt to unseat NCP leader and nephew of party patriarch Sharad Pawar, Ajit Pawar, was foiled.
Ajit Pawar beat BJP's Gopichand Padalkar by a margin of over one lakh votes in Baramati, which is his his family pocket borough. Padalkar reportedly suffered a humiliating defeat and lost his deposit.
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Pawar, former deputy chief minister of the state, won the assembly polls for a seventh successive time despite resigning from the assembly on September 27 after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) named the NCP patriarch in a money laundering case. He, however, had jumped into the fray ahead of the October 21 assembly polls.
Ahead of the elections, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had made it sort of personal mission to unseat Pawar from Baramati. However, the NCP leader was a clear winner from the very start as he maintained a comfortable lead throughout. This, despite personally spending little time in Baramati for campaigning. The NCP leader, was busy campaigning for leaders of both the NCP and the Congress while his own campaign was managed by his wife Sunetra and sons Parth and Jay, reported the Indian Express.
