Lok Sabha Elections 2024: After Baramati win, Supriya Sule seeks blessings of Ajit Pawar's mother

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On Friday, NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule, who won the Baramati Lok Sabha seat for the fourth time in a row, said that she sought the blessings of the mother of her cousin and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar by visiting their house this morning.

Defeating NCP candidate Sunetra Pawar, wife of Ajit Pawar and her sister-in-law, Supriya Sule won the battle of prestige for the Baramati seat in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule won the seat by a margin of 1,58,333 votes. The contest for this seat was keenly watched as it was for the first time that members of the influential Pawar family fought against each other on their home turf.

As reported by PTI, on Friday for the first time after her Lok Sabha Elections 2024 victory, Sule said she visited the house of Ashakaki, the mother of Ajit Pawar, in Baramati and sought her blessings.

"After the results, I came to Baramati for the first time. The first thing I did in the morning was to go and seek the blessings of Ashakaki and other elders in the family," Sule told reporters.

According to the reports, Sule had visited Ajit Pawar's house and sought his mother's blessings on the polling day on May 7.

She added that the people of Baramati have given her a big responsibility by electing her for the fourth consecutive time.

Addressing the water scarcity experienced in the region, Supriya Sule said, "Tackling water scarcity is the main issue right now. Rohit (Pawar) and Yugendra (Pawar) have already made plans to mitigate the water woes. We will now start visiting the drought-affected regions."

Discussions regarding the assembly elections are now taking place in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and the INDIA bloc members, Sule said.

After the election results, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday held a meeting of Nationalist Congress Party MLAs after the party performed poorly in the Lok Sabha polls, reported PTI.

Ajit Pawar, who is NCP national president, party working president Praful Patel and state unit chief Sunil Tatkare, who retained Raigad's seat, were present at the meeting.

Meanwhile, NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar met the newly-elected MPs of his party here and held interactions with them, on Thursday.

The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) has won eight out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections. It fought the polls as a constituent of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) along with the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Congress.

Of the eight newly-elected parliamentarians, only Supriya Sule (Baramati) and Nilesh Lanke (Ahmednagar) were absent from the meeting at the party office.

(With inputs from PTI)