PUNE: A decade after he changed his address to Mumbai and has been voting there,
NCP
(SCP) chief
Sharad Pawar
will cast his vote in
Baramati
on Tuesday. “Pawar Saheb will not cast his vote in Mumbai. All formalities for a change in his constituency have been completed. He will vote at the polling centre in Govindbaug,” Prashant Jagtap, city unit chief of NCP (SCP), said.
Party workers said the change in constituency is significant. Pawar’s daughter and sitting MP Supriya Sule has been pitted against her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar from Baramati and it is a matter of pride for the party, they said.
Pawar had changed his residential address to Mumbai to fulfil the requirements of Mumbai Cricket Association’s election which he had then contested, the NCP leader said.
He was the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India from 2005 to 2008, head of the International Cricket Council from 2010 to 2012 and chief of Mumbai Cricket Association from October 2013 to January 2017.
Pawar votes from Baramati after 10 years
The former Union agriculture minister became a permanent resident of Bhulabhai Desai Road in Malabar Hill in Mumbai. He had given copies of a landline telephone bill, his PAN card and a bank passbook as proof of residence in Mumbai.
Pawar has now gone back to his previous address in Baramati and his polling station falls under Malegaon in Baramati. “Since the early 1960s, Pawar has been a Baramati voter. After a break, he is again voting here which is a morale booster for us,” Sachin Dodke, a
voter
and NCP (SCP) leader from Warje, said.
Other NCP workers said Pawar’s voting from Baramati will inspire citizens to cast their votes too. “For many voters in Baramati, the actual fight is between Sharad Pawar and his nephew deputy CM Ajit Pawar. It is an a emotional one too. So even moves like shifting the voting constituency from Mumbai to Baramati will create a buzz here,” an NCP (SCP) worker said.
