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Lok Sabha elections 2024: All eyes on onion territory
Updated On: 14 May, 2024 07:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
PM Modi’s tryst with Pimpalgaon Baswant on amidst farmers’ anger
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Onion market in APMC, Pimpalgaon, in Nashik. File pic
Pimpalgaon-Baswant in Nashik district is synonymous with farmers’ protests. Several politicians have faced the farmers’ ire here, especially during the election campaigns. This election will be no different, as reports coming in from the country’s biggest agro markets said that the farmers were planning to protest during PM Narendra Modi’s May 15 rally for NDA’s Nashik candidate, sitting MP Hemant Godse (Shiv Sena) and Dindori nominee, sitting union minister Bharti Pawar (BJP).
Similar protest calls were given ahead of the PM’s event here in the 2019 polls. Nothing untoward was reported then, but the security forces and local police had gone through tremendous stress ensuring the safety of the leaders and audience. A senior BJP leader informed us that, in 2009, then Gujarat CM and Maharashtra poll in-charge had addressed a public meeting in Pimpalgaon-Baswant. Modi returned five years later, and again thereafter.
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