Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar made a light-hearted remark on Monday, suggesting that had he campaigned in his nephew Rohit Pawar's assembly constituency, it would have been difficult for the latter to retain his seat in the just-concluded Maharashtra assembly elections.

Rohit Pawar, who is the grandnephew of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) (Sharad Pawar faction) chief Sharad Pawar, successfully retained his Karjat Jamkhed seat in Ahilyanagar district, defeating BJP's Ram Shinde by a narrow margin of 1,243 votes.