INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
MUMBAI: A week after his Beed rally, NCP president Sharad Pawar is set to embark on a statewide tour in the constituencies of NCP leaders of
the Ajit Pawar group.Beed is the hometown of Dhananjay Munde, state agriculture minister and a trusted aide of deputy CM Ajit Pawar
Sharad Pawar will address a rally in Kolhapur in Western Maharashtra on August 25, in the presence of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj
The Kolhapur rally will be followed by one in Manchar-Ambegaon, hometown of NCP leader and cooperation minister Dilip Walse Patil, who had
Pawar Senior will also address a rally in Gondia, hometown of Praful Patel, who too has joined hands with Ajit Pawar
of the NDA government to impose 40 percent export duty on onion, following which onion prices crashed drastically
Tapase said the manner in which the government dealt with the onion episode reflected oneupmanship between DCM Devendra Fadnavis on the one
hand and CM Eknath Shinde and DCM Ajit Pawar on the other
Fadnavis, who is currently in Japan, swung into action immediately and spoke to Union home minister Amit Shah and commerce minister Piyush
Goyal, while Shinde and Ajit Pawar were struggling to make an announcement.
