Seven-term MLA and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar defeated Yugendra Pawar, backed by Sharad Pawar, in the Pawar family bastion of Baramati.

The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance secured decisive victories across Pune's 21 constituencies, with Ajit Pawar's NCP faction emerging as a strong contender in critical seats like Baramati and Hadapsar.

Central to the turnaround in Ajit Pawar's fortunes was the political consultancy handling his campaign - DesignBoxed, which has till now worked mostly with senior Congress leaders like DK Shivakumar, Ashok Gehlot, TS Singh Deo and a few Congress state units.

Ajit Pawar leads NCP in Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024, outperforming Sharad Pawar’s faction. A big political shift for Maharashtra's future.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is leading in Baramati, a stronghold of the Pawar family, as counting has begun for the Maharashtra assembly elections.

The NCP led by Sharad Pawar had the best strike rate during the Lok Sabha elections, winning eight of the 10 seats it contested with a vote share of 10.27 percent. In the Maharashtra assembly elections, the party won 13 seats, with a vote share of 11.67 percent.

Ajit Pawar won by 1,00,899 votes, while Yugendra received 80, 233 votes. In Maharashtra assembly polls, the Mahayuti alliance won over 225 seats out of the 288 seats in the state assembly

Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, and the NCP offshoot led by Ajit Pawar, have apparently flipped a chunk of seats - over 70 - from their parent parties to the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra election.

NCP-SP candidate Yugendra Pawar is trailing behind NCP chief Ajit Pawar by 21,349 votes after 5 rounds of counting for the Baramati seat in the as

All eyes are on Baramati, a stronghold of NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, as the high-profile contest is within the family.