BJP supports Ajit Pawar for Lakshadweep polls

Mumbai: BJP on Friday extended support to the Ajit Pawar-led NCP for Lok Sabha elections in the Lakshadweep parliamentary constituency. The Ajit Pawar-headed NCP is yet to announce its candidate for the seat.
“BJP extend complete support to NCP (Ajit Pawar) candidate from Lakshadweep. Together NDA can and NDA will achieve victory,” BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde posted on X.
Reacting to it, NCP’s Sharad Pawar faction took potshots at the BJP.“This is BJP making a mockery and joke out of the Ajit Pawar group and shamelessly trying to show that they are magnanimous in their support. They got only 125 votes in the last Lok Sabha elections in Lakshadweep and were a failure. BJP is showing what the Ajit Pawar group means to them,” Clyde Crasto, national spokesperson NCP (SP), wrote on X. Mohammad Faisal PP, who has been associated with the Sharad Pawar faction of NCP, won the Lakshadweep seat in the last general election. Congress has fielded former Lok Sabha member Mohammad Hamadullah Sayeed, from the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Faisal polled 22,851 votes, defeating Sayeed by 823 votes. The BJP got 125 votes.PTI