"Not Appropriate For Me...": Praful Patel On Ajit Pawar's 'Admission' On Wife
NDTV
Ajit Pawar had said he had made a mistake by fielding his wife Sunetra against his cousin Supriya Sule in the Lok Sabha elections.
A day after it was reported that Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar had 'admitted' that he had made a mistake by fielding his wife Sunetra against his cousin Supriya Sule in the Lok Sabha elections, senior NCP leader Praful Patel said on Wednesday that it would not be appropriate for him to comment on this because it was Mr Pawar's family matter.
Ms Sule, who is the daughter of NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar, had defeated Sunetra Pawar in the Baramati Lok Sabha seat by a margin of over 1.5 lakh votes. Ajit Pawar, who had split the NCP and joined the government run by the BJP and the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena last year, had turned the contest for the family bastion of Baramati into a prestige battle by picking his wife as the candidate.
While his faction of the NCP, which had retained the name and symbol of the party, won one Lok Sabha seat, the group led by his uncle, Sharad Pawar, managed to bag eight.
