Mumbai: “Now that the senior leader {Sharad Pawar) has said he will not be contesting any election in the future, who is going to take care of you? Who else is there apart from me?” These were the words of Ajit Pawar,

PUNE In the end, Ajit Pawar had the last laugh. After the heavy defeat of his wife, Sunetra Pawar, in the Lok Sabha elections from the Baramati parliamentary constituency earlier this year, there were serious doubts about Ajit Pawar’s leadership credentials to steer the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the Maharashtra assembly elections.

MUMBAI: Sharad Pawar's self-proclaimed swansong in electoral politics ended in a damp squib with his nephew's NCP winning more than 4x the seats that his own party could muster. In retaliation for Ajit's decision to field his wife against Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule,

Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, and the NCP offshoot led by Ajit Pawar, have apparently flipped a chunk of seats - over 70 - from their parent parties to the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra election.

NCP-SP candidate Yugendra Pawar is trailing behind NCP chief Ajit Pawar by 21,349 votes after 5 rounds of counting for the Baramati seat in the as

Ajit Pawar, leading a faction of the NCP, secured a significant victory in the recent Maharashtra assembly elections, winning 40 seats compared to his uncle Sharad Pawar's 10. Despite this triumph, Ajit's long-held ambition of becoming Chief Minister remains unfulfilled.

Ajit Pawar defeated his nephew Yugendra Pawar, who was endorsed by 83-year-old Sharad Pawar, by a margin of over 1 lakh votes.

PUNE: The passage of time seemed momentarily suspended at Bhigwan Chowk, Baramati's political epicentre as the constituency stepped into a new chapter on Saturday, with Tennyson's words echoing powerfully: "The old order changeth,

The NCP's Ajit Pawar Pawar faction is leading in 33 constituencies of Amravati, Baramati, Pimpri and Ahmednagar City, with key candidates being Ajit Pawar, Zeeshan Siddique, Sana Malik