India, March 16 -- PUNE Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) (SP) chief Sharad Pawar expressed concerns about the worsening law and order situation in Beed and accused 'some people' are misusing power for personal gains.

"The state government must take strict action against those taking the law into their own hands, regardless of their political affiliations," Pawar said while speaking in Baramati on Saturday in response to a question about the delay in state minister Dhananjay Munde's removal from the cabinet and the security concerns in Beed following sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh's murder on December 9 last year.

"I have known Beed for years, and the district was never in such a state. It has always been known for its peaceful and harmonious...