#Sunetra

From Indianexpress RSS Feed: Tatkare meets Sharad Pawar after senior leaders omitted from NCP’s list to EC

Maharashtra NCP chief Sunil Tatkare says that just as India knows Mayawati as ‘Behen’, Mamata Banerjee as ‘Didi’, and J Jayalalithaa as ‘Amma’, Sunetra Pawar will be known as the country's first ‘Vahini’ (sister-in-law).

Two weeks ago, NCP(SP) executive president and Baramati MP Supriya Sule said she would be happy to see her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar as CM of the state.

Her three-month tenure as Deputy CM has been rocky with party colleagues embroiled in controversy and son Parth Pawar’s growing influence not going down with senior leaders

Sunetra Pawar leads comfortably in Baramati, securing thousands of votes, while her closest rival has around 100, Independents under 100 each, and NOTA just over 100.

Sunetra Pawar's win is a foregone conclusion; she is the only candidate from a major political party contesting the Baramati Assembly bypoll.

Amid internal jockeying and questions of loyalty, Sunetra Pawar faces a challenge to take her first major call as Nationalist Congress Party chief in selecting the party’s lone candidate for the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls.