NCP(SP) won't contest against Sunetra Pawar in Baramati Assembly bypoll: Supriya Sule
The Hindu
Supriya Sule confirms NCP(SP) won't contest Baramati bypoll against Sunetra Pawar, urging for an all-party meeting on LPG crisis.
Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) working president Supriya Sule on Monday (March 16, 2026) said her party will not field a candidate against Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Sunetra Pawar in the upcoming Baramati Assembly bypoll.
The Election Commission on Sunday (March 15, 2026) announced that bypolls to Baramati in Pune and Rahuri in Ahilyanagar, necessitated by the deaths of then Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Shivaji Kardile, respectively, will be held on April 23, 2026.
NCP president Sunetra Pawar is likely to contest the byelection from Baramati. "I have already clarified that NCP(SP) will not contest the Baramati bypoll. We will not field our candidate against Sunetra Vahini (sister-in-law). As far as Rahuri seat is concerned, the (Opposition) Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners will deliberate on the seat and a decision will be taken in the next couple of days," Ms. Sule told reporters in Delhi.
On Sunday (March 15, 2026), Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said all efforts would be made to ensure the bypolls to Baramati and Rahuri Assembly seats are held unopposed through consensus, but asserted the BJP was ready if it came down to a contest.
Notably, in the 2024 general polls, Ms. Sule, the daughter of NCP(SP) chief Sharad Pawar, retained the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency by defeating her cousin Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra Pawar in the latter's maiden election.
Sunetra Pawar was later elected as a Rajya Sabha member. Her husband Ajit Pawar and four others were killed in a plane crash near the Baramati airstrip in Pune district on January 28 this year, following which she was appointed as the Deputy CM and president of the NCP.
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