Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has met Bharatiya Janata Party MP Girish Bapat, who has been ailing since sometime, in Pune and said the parliamentarian assured that the ruling alliance in the state will win the upcoming bypolls to two Assembly seats in Pune.

Shinde, who was in Pimpri-Chinchwad town here on Saturday, went to meet Bapat, the Lok Sabha member from Pune, and enquired about his health. After the meeting, the CM said, "Girish Bapat is our old friend. I went to his place just to enquire about his health. I am sure he will be back in the next few days. He also assured me that we will win the bypolls in both the constituencies."