'You Don't Own Me': Ajit Pawar Tells Voters In Maharashtra's Baramati

While addressing a public meeting in Baramati on Sunday, an irate NCP leader, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, asked the crowd if they had made him their servant. “You voted for me, but that doesn't mean you own me,” he said.

Meanwhile, Maharashtra BJP chief and cabinet colleague Chandrashekhar Bawankule stressed the importance of the people, saying that it is they who bring leaders to power. He assured on Monday that the government will fulfil all promises.

Ajit Pawar, recognised as a sharp administrator who honed his political skills under his uncle Sharad Pawar, first became deputy chief minister in 2010 during Congress’s Prithviraj Chavan's tenure. His second term as deputy CM was in 2012, again under Chavan, as part of the Congress-NCP alliance.