India, Feb. 15 -- Speculations are rife that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Suresh Dhas and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Dhananjay Munde have buried the hatchet, after the two met recently aided by state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule. Dhas had launched a scathing attack on Munde in connection with the murder of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in December.

Deshmukh was kidnapped and murdered when he tried to foil a Rs.2 crore extortion bid from a local windmill company allegedly engineered by Beed strongman Walmik Karad, a close associate of Munde. Over the last two months, since the incident, despite Karad's links with Munde being established, NCP chief Ajit Pawar refused to take action against him.

Now, Bawankul...