Srinivas Pawar

Ajit Pawar may be Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, but that hasn't stopped his brother - Shrinivas Pawar - from exercising an elder sibling's privilege, a stern rebuke, ahead of the Lok Sabha election.

"Now no election" was Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar's one-line reply on being asked whether he would consider contesting next year's Lok Sabha polls from Pune. Mr Pawar and former Tripura governor Srinivas Patil were being interviewed by Sudhir Gadgil at a function here Sunday to mark the launch of "Pune Ekekali", a coffee-tab...

Ajit Pawar may be Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, but that hasn't stopped his brother - Shrinivas Pawar - from exercising an elder sibling's privilege, a stern rebuke, ahead of the Lok Sabha election.

"Now no election" was Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar's one-line reply on being asked whether he would consider contesting next year's Lok Sabha polls from Pune. Mr Pawar and former Tripura governor Srinivas Patil were being interviewed by Sudhir Gadgil at a function here Sunday to mark the launch of "Pune Ekekali", a coffee-tab...