More’s campaign for Baramati seat begins

PUNE, Aug 20: Congress candidate Ramkrishna More, who has locked horns with Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar in the Baramat...

PUNE, Aug 20: Congress candidate Ramkrishna More, who has locked horns with Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar in the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency has launched his election campaign from the temple-town of Dehu.

More, who held a series of meetings in the Pimpri-Chinchwad belt today, made a scathing attack on Pawar. Maintaining that when the nation needed stability, Pawar’s prediction of an unstable government was rooted in his craving to play a decisive role at the Centre.

Incidentally Pawar too had launched his election campaign from Dehu last Friday and later held meetings in the villages of Talawade and Chikhli before addressing another public meeting in Akurdi. BJP candidate Pratibha Lokhande addressed a party workers rally, but is yet to formally launch her campaign.

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Meanwhile, in the Haveli Assembly segment, unrest prevails among the considerably large number of aspirants from both the NCP and the Congress. NCP party unit president of Pimpri-Chinchwad Nana Shitole, who is himself one of the 18 aspirants, said that there was no likelihood of the announcement of the candidature till Saturday.

The Congress too, which had a total of ten aspirants, is believed to have planned that it would announce its candidate only after the NCP’s candidate was known. The two parties will have to take on the Shiv Sena, which has retained the candidature of MLA Gajanan Babar, who has already begun his election campaign.