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Ajit Pawar loses home turf, face in assembly polls

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Former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar may have won in Baramati with the highest vote margin in state, but he has failed on his home turf. BJP won all eight seats in Pune city, where Pawar is the guardian minister.

And what probably is salt on his wounds, the two candidates he had threatened to teach a lesson — BJP's Laxman Jagtap and RSP's Rahul Kul — instead emerged winners in their constituencies.

BJP also registered a sweeping victory in Nashik and Nagpur by winning all three seats in Nashik, and 11 of the 12 in Nagpur.

Earlier, NCP had 10 out of the 21 assembly seats in Pune district, with one MLA in Pune city and nine in other areas in the district. Now, the Mahayuti has 10 out of the 21 seats, with BJP and RSP winning one seat each in Pune district areas.

Various NGOs and activists in Pune have termed Congress-NCP's defeat in Pune as a "clean Pune drive" by the voters. Activist Deepak Bidkar said voters have shown those who did not care for Pune's environment and backed unauthorised constructions their place.

However, NCP's state unit president Sunil Tatkare said just one election loss doesn't indicate that everything is over for an individual. Congress has seen many defeats and so has NCP, he said, adding that the party will bounce back in urban areas, including Pune, Nashik and Nagpur.

In Pune's rural areas, unauthorised constructions was a big issue and that's why Jagtap had migrated to BJP. Same is the case with Kul, RSP's candidate from Daund, who was an NCP candidate during the 2009 election. During the campaign, Pawar had said to Kul that he would teach him such a lesson that his seven generations would remember.

Incidentally, Kul's father the late Subhash Kul and mother Ranjana Kul too had represented the Daund constituency as MLAs.

Despite Pawar's threat, Kul defeated NCP candidate Ashok Pawar by 12,000 votes. Kul said, "Neither me nor my family is used to such abusive language... I had restrained from commenting, and now the voters themselves have given him a fitting reply."

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