India, Jan. 4 -- Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Ravindra Chavan on Saturday hit back at deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar over his allegations of corruption and mounting debt in the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), asking the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief to "introspect" before making such claims.

Chavan said that if the BJP were to begin levelling allegations in response, it could create serious problems for Pawar. He reminded him that the Ajit Pawar-led NCP is a partner of the BJP in the ruling Mahayuti alliance.

Reacting to Pawar's statement that corruption had plagued the civic body and pushed it into debt, Chavan noted that the BJP had ruled the PCMC from 2017 to 2022, after which the corpo...