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Ajit Pawar quits as MLA 'troubled' by uncle's woes
Updated On: 28 September, 2019 07:08 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
Move stuns Sharad Pawar, NCP leaders; rumours of unrest in family and split in NCP do rounds
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Party workers stage a protest in support of Sharad Pawar at Fort. Pic/ Sneha Kharabe
On a dramatic day that gave NCP boss Sharad Pawar the much-required traction over his plans to visit the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office, his nephew and one of the prime accused in the money laundering case, Ajit Pawar resigned as a legislator from Baramati. The news took senior NCP leaders, who were celebrating their orchestrated agitation ahead of the Assembly elections, by surprise.
Quoting Ajit's son, Pawar said his nephew might have resigned owing to a moral responsibility towards the unnecessary trouble that his uncle been put through. "His son told me that he (Ajit) was disturbed because of the ED action against me. He told his son that politics has stooped to a new low and hence he (the son) should quit politics and go into farming or business. I assume the restlessness made Ajit quit," said Pawar while addressing the media in Pune.
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