Rajshri Munde, wife of state minister Dhananjay Munde, escaped with minor injuries after the car she was travelling in rear-ended a private bus near Sortapawadi on the Solapur-Pune Road on Thursday
After Ajit’s first address to his faction’s workers soon after taking oath as deputy chief minister, he had stopped personally attacking his uncle. But latest developments indicate that he is out to finish Pawar politically. His announcement of contesting four Lok Sabha seats including Pawar family pocket-borough Baramati confirms this. It remains to be seen if he fields wife Sunetra or son Parth as is being speculated.
Opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi won 76 out of 131 bodies in the Agriculture Produce Market Committees elections, while the ruling alliance secured 31 bodies. The results are seen as a setback to the ruling alliance, especially for Shiv Sena. BJP claimed to have won the highest number of seats, but a retired cooperation department official said APMC elections have always been politically sensitive and parties use them to strengthen their base at the local level.