24 October,2024 07:20 PM IST | Pune | PTI
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The National Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) on Thursday, October 24, announced the candidature of Yugendra Pawar against his uncle and Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar from Baramati as the party came out with its first list of 45 candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly election, reported news agency PTI.
Yugendra is the son of Ajit Pawar's younger brother Shrinivas.
The others in the NCP (SP) list included its state chief Jayant Patil (Islampur), Jitendra Awhad (Mumbra-Kalwa), Anil Deshmukh (Katol), Harshvardhan Patil (Indapur) and late R R Patil's son Rohit, who is making a debut (Tasgaon-Kavthemahankal).
Notably, in the Lok Sabha elections, Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra had polled 5,73,979 votes in the Baramati parliamentary constituency in Pune district, losing to her sister-in-law and NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule, who got 7,32,312 votes.
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