PUNE, April 21 -- In September 2022, when India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman paid a three-day visit to the Baramati parliamentary constituency as part of the BJP's 'Pravas' campaign to strengthen the organisation, she held extensive parlays with BJP and RSS cadres on expanding the party network and strengthening its base for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Back then, neither Sitharaman nor the BJP knew that its extensive groundwork would ultimately have to be put to use for a leader who was then in the opposition: Ajit Pawar....