Another Pawar vs Pawar? Yugendra may fight uncle Ajit from Baramati assembly seat

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Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar for the soul of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). But another big uncle-nephew tussle is in the offing in the assembly elections that are scheduled to be held in October. That could see Ajit Pawar pitted against Yugendra Pawar on the Baramati assembly seat.

Yugendra is the son of Ajit’s brother Shrinivas.

Banners have been put up in Baramati by Yugendra’s supporters, announcing him as the next MLA. Speaking to ET, the young Pawar didn’t deny there was a clamour for him to contest there. “The cadre feel I am capable.

They are expressing their love to me this way,” he said. “However, I have never expressed that I am going to contest the polls."

Yugendra said, “I tell the cadre that this is not what we should be focusing on now. Our main goal is to support Bade Saheb (Sharad Pawar).

Even though Ajit Dada is my uncle, Pawar Saheb is my role model.” Yugendra has been organising and leading Sule's campaign against Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra, holding corner meetings and participating in padayatras with Sule's daughter Revati. “Before I went to campaign for Supriya Sule, there was an atmosphere of terror from the other side (Ajit Pawar camp),” he said. “There were threats.Barring five people, there weren't many willing to stand with us.