This time around, he resigned from the MLA’s post without Pawar knowing about it.I landed in New York and took an apartment in New jersey. Just to get used to the time difference, my buddy invited me to watch this movie in a theater (me and theater- are like kids and freak shows). That Ajit learnt no lessons from that chapter was evident last month, when Pawar’s name cropped up in the Maharashtra Co-operative Bank scam. It is no secret that the senior Pawar was furious at the development. In 2011, when Ajit’s name came up in the irrigation scam, he abruptly resigned from the state government without even informing Pawar. Talk of unrest in the Pawar bastion has been brewing for a while now. Ajit came under multiple agencies’ scanner, especially his alleged involvement in the Rs 35,000 crore irrigation scam and the Maharashtra Co-operative Bank fraud.
Anna Hazare’s movement against corruption saw anger swelling against the Congress-NCP government at the state level. Groomed as Pawar’s successor at the state-level (Supriya Sule had made it clear that she was happy in New Delhi), Ajit’s star was at its zenith when he took over as the state’s deputy chief minister in 2010.Īs the Modi wave swept away all opposition in the 2014 general elections, Maharashtra too saw a change of guard. He became a minister of state in Sudhakarrao Naik’s government (1991-92), and again in 1992-93 when Pawar returned to Maharashtra as chief minister. Ajit would go on to win the Baramati seat five more times (1995, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014). This period saw him rise through the ranks, first winning the Lok Sabha election from Baramati, then the assembly election from the same constituency after vacating the Lok Sabha seat for Pawar. Nine years later, he was elected chairman of the Pune District Co-operative Bank, a post he would go on to occupy for the next 16 years.Ījit Pawar’s cousin Supriya said she ‘supported’ him and now she doesn’t know whom to trust When Ajit was pursuing primary education in Deolali Pravara, Sharad Pawar was the rising star in the Congress.Ījit’s political innings began in 1982 when he was elected to the board of a cooperative sugar factory. He doesn’t believe in giving people false hopes and that’s why people in his constituency love him,” a supporter said.Ījit is the son of Pawar’s elder brother Anant, who died when Ajit was still in school. Whoever approaches him for a favour gets a yes or a no immediately. But ask anybody in NCP and they will tell you he doesn’t make people run around. “Dada’s only fault is he calls a spade a shovel. His followers say ‘Dada’s’ straighttalk and no-nonsense approach is misconstrued as arrogance. “I have noticed that more children are being born once the lights go off at night. If this wasn’t enough, he followed it up with another cringe-worthy remark, this time on load-shedding. “If there is no water in the dam, should we urinate into it?” he said. Who can forget that crass remark in 2013, when parts of Maharashtra were reeling under severe drought? Addressing a gathering near Pune, Ajit said that there was little the state government can do in such times. But he has the personality, and the following (his supporters address him as Ajit Dada), to overcome the obstacles that are sometimes his own creation. Sixty-year-old Ajit has always been a stormy petrel, someone who hasn’t cared to cultivate the tact that his uncle is so famous for. Those who have followed the Pawar family’s rise vouch that the uncle and the nephew are like cheese and chalk.
If he can pull this off now, he will create his own legacy. Bowling a googly at his uncle is Ajit’s biggest ever gamble. The floor test, which is likely to take place on November 30, will decide not only the fate of Ajit’s tenure as deputy chief minister, but his political career as well.
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