Battleground Baramati: Ajit Pawar’s son faces criticism over ‘immature’ comments against Congress

Parth Pawar, son of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar and late Ajit Pawar, has come under severe criticism by the Congress over his comments against the national party. A day after he predicted the downfall of the Congress in Maharashtra because of the national party’s decision to contest Baramati bypoll against his mother, the Congress showed rare aggression while slamming him. Calling him an ‘ungrateful son’, a bad orator, the national party has questioned his ‘political convenience’ and silence over his father’s accidental death. Congress also reminded him that the Karnataka government by Congress has registered an FIR in the matter. Parth did not find support in family as well, with grandfather Sharad Pawar, aunt Supriya Sule and cousin Rohit Pawar taking a contradictory stance.

“Isn’t it a bit too much for a son—who can’t even deliver a speech properly and has just become an MP thanks to the accumulated merits of his family—to be talking about the downfall of the Congress party? It would be better if this ungrateful son—who stayed silent as a political convenience to escape scrutiny in the land scam investigation right after his father’s suspicious accidental death, and who surrendered before the superpower—simply refrained from speaking about the Congress party altogether,” Maharashtra Congress posted on its official X handle.

The party did not forget to remind him that while Maharashtra government had not registered an FIR in his father’s death, its government in Karnataka had registered it. “To secure justice for this boy’s father, the Karnataka government filed an FIR in their state; there, the government belongs to the Congress party, and the official candidate of the Congress party in the Baramati Assembly bypoll is demanding that the suspicious accident be registered as a crime in Maharashtra, threatening to withdraw from the election. Shouldn’t this ungrateful son speak up about this too?”

The hard-hitting comments were made after Parth Pawar dismissed the Congress and took a jibe at the party over its alleged maturity, for giving a candidate against his mother in Baramati. Several allies of the Congress too had appealed for an unopposed election in Baramati. “Congress should understand what should be done. They will face a backlash because of this. People do not forget these things. People love Dada (Ajit Pawar). Such a mature party should take this decision, is wrong. We can’t stop anyone. We will not call anyone. I feel bad that this is Congress’ downfall in Maharashtra,” Parth Pawar had said in Baramati.

NCP SP supremo Sharad Pawar was quick to rebut his grandson’s statement. “In politics, certain maturity is required to make statement. I don’t know if it is there,” he said. NCP SP MP Supriya Sule too defended the Congress, saying that nobody can undermine the national party’s importance.

Parth’s cousin and NCP SP MLA Rohit Pawar too said that it was a hurried statement which was incorrect in nature. “If you ask him today, he will likely say it was not right,” he said.