Within the battle for Baramati, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has an edge over his uncle Sharad Pawar in a single space — the cooperative sector.
Virtually all of the cooperative establishments within the space are below the management of Ajit Pawar, whose spouse Sunetra Pawar is NCP’s Baramati candidate preventing towards NCP (SP)’s Supriya Sule, the sitting MP.
Administrators of the Malegaon Cooperative Sugar Mill and the Baramati Taluka Milk Producers Union, the Pune district cooperative milk producers union (Katraj Dairy) and administrators of the Pune district cooperative financial institution have already sworn their alliance to the deputy chief minister.
Each Dr Digambar Durgade, the chairman of the Pune District Cooperative Financial institution, in addition to the vice chairman, Sunil Chandere, are Ajit Pawar loyalists and have hit the bottom for Sunetra Pawar.
Sonai Dairy — the biggest personal milk dairy of Maharashtra — has additionally thrown its weight behind Ajit Pawar.
Even earlier than he parted methods from his uncle, Ajit Pawar was chargeable for the management of the cooperative models that are main energy centres for any space.
Ajit, through the years, has have nurtured these establishments and it’s no marvel that the leaders have determined to hit the streets for him.
Whereas Sharad Pawar had acquired himself busy with state and nationwide politics, it was left to Ajit to handle the native and district degree politics.
It may be recalled that Ajit Pawar had made his electoral debut by the election of Baramati Agricultural Produce Market Committee.
Since then, he has been constantly being elected over the board of varied cooperative sugar mills, the District central cooperative financial institution and different establishments of significance.
A director of the Malegaon Cooperative Sugar mill, on situation of anonymity, stated this was extra of compulsion.
“Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar had been the identical energy centres for Baramati and Pune. Through the years, Ajit Pawar personally taken care of the elections to the boards and it was below his steering that we labored. For us it was unthinkable that each would cut up up. However once they did, our loyalty needed to be with Ajit,”the director stated.
These establishments additionally enable entry to man energy who turn out to be useful for elections — from manning the cubicles to finishing up door-to-door campaigns.
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