New leadership was needed for completing these incomplete works, he added.”I can only give one assurance. I am not in power. I am in the Rajya Sabha and I got one and a half years’ term left. Afterwards, I will have to take the decision as to whether to go to the Rajya Sabha again. I will not contest Lok Sabha, nor will I contest any (other) election.I have contested 14 elections so far and every time, you have made me victorious, and that is why there is a need to stop somewhere. And that is why I have started working to bring in a new leadership,” he said.This, however, does not mean he will retire from the social sphere, Sharad Pawar said.”I will not be in power, but will continue to work for the people, work for the drought-affected regions, the marginalised segments of society,” he said.Sharad Pawar contested and won his first assembly election from Baramati in 1967, and represented the constituency till 1991 when he was made defence minister in the P V Narasimha Rao government.Pawar, who has won Lok Sabha elections seven times during different phases of his career, was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2014.He is currently in his second term as a member of the Upper House of Parliament.His daughter Supriya Sule is the Lok Sabha MP from Baramati since 2009.Baramati saw a fight within the Pawar family for the first time in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections when Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar contested against Sule.The assembly constituency would now witness a contest between Ajit and his nephew.
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