Lok Sabha polls: Prestige battle for Ajit Pawar as he makes Shirur personal

Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil, who was with Eknath Shinde faction of Sena, joined the NCP (Ajit faction) when he realised that the Shirur seat was given to the Ajit camp. Ajit has, so far, held close to a dozen rallies in the constituency. "Within two years after winning the elections, he came to me and said that he is a celebrity and that he needs to work again as he had financial issues and he wants to resign as an MP. I told him how he could resign so soon as people would be very angry," said Ajit in one of his speeches.