The battle for Baramati (in Pune district) is arguably the most keenly contested electoral fight in the upcoming Lok Sabha election in Maharashtra.
However, shifting alliances within the Pawar family has ensured that the contest has heated up even before the start of the official campaign.
Sources say that Deputy CM and rebel NCP leader Ajit Pawar is almost certain to field his wife Sunetra Pawar as the candidate of ruling mahayuti coalition (of the BJP, CM Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena group and Mr. Pawar’s NCP faction).
