Mumbai, June 25 -- Maharashtra's deputy chief minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Tuesday returned to sugar co-operative politics triumphantly after a gap of 39 years, as he was elected to the 21-member board of directors of Malegaon Cooperative Sugar Mill on home turf of Baramati in Pune district of western Maharashtra.
Given that the panel with Ajit Pawar is associated is taking on the panel led by rival NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and his MP daughter Supriya Sule. Ajitdada - as Ajit Pawar is known in the state political circles 1 who was contesting a sugar body for the first time after 1984, was elected to 21-member board of directors at the Malegaon Cooperative Sugar Mill. He secured 91 of the 101 votes cast in the high-stakes electio...