Can you guess who, other than Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, is a star campaigner for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)? Ramdas Athawale, president of Republican Party of India (A) and Union Minister of State for Social Welfare, has been the surprise inclusion in Fadnavis's campaign entourage during Lok Sabha poll rallies across the state and outside.

With the last two phases of polling to go in the state, Fadnavis has held 70 rallies in 34 constituencies so far, including one in Gujarat and three in Goa. Athawale has been with the CM in almost 90 per cent of these events and would continue to accompany the CM in the coming days too. The RPI chief joins Fadnavis at the Mumbai airport or Juhu helipad from where they fly out to their destinations and return late in the night.