A day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar opted out of the Lok Sabha elections, fresh pressures mounted on him to reconsider his decision on Tuesday.
This time it was another grand-nephew Rohit Pawar, who publicly appealed to Pawar to enter the electoral fray.
Rohit Pawar, son of businessman Rajendra Pawar, penned a short post on his social media accounts, appealing to his grand-uncle to fight the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, saying that “it is the desire of lakhs of party workers also”.
However, top NCP sources claim that this time, Pawar may not relent and would choose to keep himself free to campaign for the Congress-NCP in Maharashtra and for the Opposition parties elsewhere in the country to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party.