PUNE, Nov. 10 -- Pushed into a corner over his son Parth's now-scrapped land deal, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday shifted the blame for the alleged scam squarely to the sub-registrar who registered the sale deed while staunchly defending his son. Parth has been embroiled in a controversy regarding the purchase of government land for his company, Amadea Enterprises, for Rs.300 crore, a price far less than its reported market value of Rs.1,800 crore. Opposition leaders also pointed out that the 40-acre plot was Mahar Wattan land which could not be sold to a private party. Ajit on Sunday maintained that the individual in the sub-registrar's office should be held accountable. "How did he register the deed?" he asked. "What prompted him to do a wrong job? We will find this out through a probe." The deputy CM also sought to link the allegations with elections to local bodies. "Earlier too, allegations of (irregularities of) Rs.70,000 crore were raised against me; it's been 15 to 16 years since then. Whenever there are elections, multiple accusations are made against us. We try to work transparently, but as soon as we do, people start digging up and alleging random land deals," Pawar told reporters at Baramati in Pune district. P4...