Amid speculation that Sunetra Pawar, wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and rebel NCP leader Ajit Pawar, could contest the Baramati Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 election, current Baramati MP Supriya Sule said “an invisible power from Delhi” was attempting to cause divisions within the Pawar family and Maharashtra’s politics.
Ms. Sule is the cousin of Mr. Ajit Pawar, who broke away from Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to align his rebel NCP group with the ruling Eknath Shinde-BJP government in July this year.
Since then, there has been intense speculation that Mr. Ajit Pawar would pit a family member against his cousin, three-time Baramati MP Ms. Sule.