‘Winds of change blowing across country’

NCP chief Sharad Pawar says bypoll result shows that people are looking for an alternative to the BJP

First India Bureau

Mumbai: The Congress candidate’s win in the traditional Bharatiya Janata Party bastion of Kasba Peth in the recent Assembly bypoll seems to have given the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance a fresh burst of hope.

Speaking to reporters in his hometown of Baramati in Pune district, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar called Ravindra Dhangekar’s win an indication that winds of change are blowing across the country.

NCP, along with the Congress and the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena, form the tripartite MVA alliance, which was in power until the split in the Shiv Sena last year.

“BJP’s defeat in the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll proves that people are considering an alternative. Winds of change are blowing across the country,” Pawar said.

Dhangekar defeated the saffron party nominee Hemant Rasane in a keenly contested bypoll, the results of which