Days after Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis attempted to change the narrative of the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency contest from the local to the national level, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) camp made a quick attempt to reverse this. Last week, Fadnavis stated that the Baramati fight was about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi and not a contest between sitting MP Supriya Sule—the daughter of Sharad Pawar—and Sunetra Pawar, the wife of his estranged nephew and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.

Do-or-die battle