Supriya Sule of NCP-Sharad Pawar leads in Maharashtra’s Baramati Lok Sabha seat
Though the final results are still pending, the lead is noteworthy in the early stages of vote counting.
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Supriya Sule, a prominent leader of the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar, is currently leading in Maharashtra’s Baramati Lok Sabha constituency, data from the Election Commission showed.
Sule is ahead of Sunetra Pawar, the wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, by a margin of 15,852 votes, according to Election Commission data as of 1.45 pm. She had gained 1,24,094 of the 2,49,261 votes counted.
Sule, the daughter of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar, is Ajit Pawar’s cousin.
Sunetra Pawar has been fielded by the Ajit Pawar-led faction of the Nationalist Congress Party.
In July, Ajit Pawar, along with several party MLAs, joined Maharashtra’s Mahayuti coalition government, comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party and the faction of the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. He then became the deputy chief minister.
The move led to a split in the Nationalist Congress Party, with one faction supporting Sharad Pawar and the other backing Ajit Pawar.
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Sule’s party contested the elections as part of the Opposition INDIA bloc, which also includes the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and the Congress in Maharashtra.
Baramati is a historical stronghold of Sharad Pawar’s family and remains of strategic importance to his party with Assembly polls in Maharashtra due later...
