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Maharashtra BJP president Ravindra Chavan connected Saturday (January 3, 2025) said Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar should "introspect", aft helium alleged corruption and indebtedness successful the Pimpri Chinchwad civic body, which had been ruled by the BJP.
“If the Bharatiya Janata Party starts making allegations, it would make superior difficulties for him [Mr. Pawar],” Mr. Chavan said, and advised the NCP main to "introspect" earlier levelling allegations.
The NCP, headed by Mr. Pawar, is an state of the BJP successful the ruling Mahayuti dispensation. Mr. Chavan was responding to Mr. Pawar's allegations that the civic assemblage has been infested with corruption for the past 9 years and has been pushed into indebtedness implicit the aforesaid period.
Notably, the Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corp was governed by the BJP from 2017 to 2022 and thereafter by a State-appointed administrator. The civic assemblage is going to the polls connected January 15, on with 28 different municipal corporations.
Ajit Pawar made this connection successful the backdrop of the upcoming elections. Ajit Pawar should archetypal introspect earlier making allegations. “He needs to clarify which enactment helium is speaking about. Is the connection meant for the enactment that is nether the enactment of PM Narendra Modi?" Mr. Chavan asked portion addressing a property conference.
Mr. Chavan justified the unopposed predetermination of BJP candidates successful Kalyan-Dombivli and different parts of the State adjacent earlier votes are formed by attributing it to the lack of Opposition candidates.
"For respective years, the BJP and Shiv Sena (undivided) were contesting against each different successful Kalyan-Dombivli. However, arsenic the BJP and Shiv Sena (headed by lawman CM Eknath Shinde) person allied, nary Opposition enactment is near successful the fray," Mr. Chavan added.
Mr. Pawar, connected Friday (December 3, 2025), justified giving tickets to candidates with transgression backgrounds for civic polls, claiming helium himself faced allegations of orchestrating a ₹70,000 crore irrigation scam, and asserted nary 1 is simply a transgression until proven guilty.
"Everybody knows that allegations of a ₹70,000 crore irrigation scam were levelled against me. Today, I americium successful powerfulness alongside those who made those allegations. Can a idiosyncratic beryllium labelled blameworthy adjacent earlier it is proved?" Mr. Pawar asked.
The Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has fixed tickets to Sonali Andekar, daughter-in-law of pack person Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar, and his sister-in-law Laxmi Andekar done its state RPI (Sachin Kharat faction ). All 3 are accused of the execution of Bandu Andekar's grandson, Ayush Komkar, and are presently successful jail.
