MUMBAI: After expressing his regrets over fielding his spouse against his sister Supriya Sule from the Baramati Lok Sabha elections, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar said on Thursday that he was not much interested in contesting the Baramati seat in the assembly polls due this year.In an interaction with the media in Pune, he said his son Jay Pawar was taking rounds of Baramati, stressing that in a democracy, each one has the right to contest elections. “I have contested the Baramati elections 7-8 times. So, I am not much interested this time. If there is a demand for Jay, then the party’s parliamentary board can discuss and decide it,” said Ajit. Ajit’s spouse Sunetra lost the Lok sabha election by over 1.5 lakh votes in Baramati LS constituency. She also trailed by over 50,000 votes from the Baramati state assembly segment where Ajit Pawar has been MLA eight times.
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