Pune: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar stirred a political controversy while addressing a crowd in the town of Malegaon in Pune's Baramati ahead of the upcoming local-body election. Pawar, who took to a crowded meeting hall to campaign for the upcoming Nagar Parishad elections on Saturday, during his speech, allegedly mixed promises of development with a thinly veiled threat over the outcome of the election results.

A video of his speech is now going viral on social media, wherein Pawar was allegedly captured issuing a warning that the outcome of the vote would decide whether the government’s schemes would reach the town’s residents. During his address to the crowd, he reminded the Centre and the state together had launched numerous programmes, and that if every

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