Rohit Pawar Urges Congress To Wthdraw Candidate Against Sunetra Pawar

NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Thursday met Maharashtra Congress president Harshvardhan Sapkal, urging the party to withdraw its candidate from the Baramati bypoll to facilitate the unopposed election of his aunt, NCP president Sunetra Pawar. 

A day earlier, Sunetra Pawar had spoken to Sapkal to request him to ensure that his party's candidate withdraws his nomination against her in the April 23 bypoll, according to sources.

The Congress had said that it would



withdraw from the contest only if an FIR was registered in deputy CM Ajit Pawar's death in a plane crash in January, which necessitated the Baramati bye election. 

However, the run-up to the contest turned acrimonious after Sunetra Pawar's son Parth Pawar recently criticised Congress for fielding a candidate and predicted the party's "downfall". 

Rohit Pawar told reporters on Thursday that he had expressed regret about his cousin Parth Pawar's remarks.