PUNE: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday lost his cool while speaking at a public event in Baramati. When his supporters flooded him with letters on various issues, Pawar said, “You voted for me, that does not mean you have become my boss. Have you made me a farm labourer now?”
Cabinet minister Sanjay Shirsat who defended Pawar said, “Sometimes, when elected representatives are working, some voters keep insisting on certain issues, but the elected representative’s comments are highlighted whereas the behaviour of voters is not talked about anywhere.”
Ajit Pawar spent the entire Sunday attending events in Baramati. At one of them, he spoke about the scope of expansion for the real estate market in the tehsil. He said that the market slipped after his wife Sunetra lost the Lok Sabha election. However, it rose again after he won the Baramati assembly seat.
He said, “Baramati’s real estate market is growing but big developers from Mumbai and Pune have not yet entered it. When the purchasing power of the people of Baramati increases, it will help real estate, and then we will see big players setting up their projects in the tehsil.”
The deputy CM claimed that the Pawar versus Pawar contests in Baramati affected the real estate business. Referring to Sunetra’s defeat, Ajit Pawar said, “After the Lok Sabha result, some people involved in real estate dealings were wondering what really happened. I feel that I got a lead of over one lakh votes (in the assembly poll) because people wanted to ensure that I should be part of govt. After we formed govt, the real estate market of Baramati witnessed a rise again.” He defeated his nephew Yugendra in assembly poll.
Ajit Pawar warned MIDC officials to not convert the status of any land in Baramati from residential to commercial without his knowledge. “We made certain plots commercial so that industries would be set up and people of the tehsil would get employment here. However, MIDC officials cannot go on a spree changing the status of plots. Not a single plot’s status will be converted from residential to commercial without my knowledge,” Pawar said.
