Ajit Pawar must resign; must not be pardoned: Gopinath Munde

AURANGABAD: Maharashtra's BJP senior leader Gopinath Munde said here today that Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar should resign for his insensitive remarks on drought and load-shedding.

He should not be pardoned, Munde said, during a demonstration in front of the divisional commissioner's office here, demanding relief to farmers whose fruit orchards had gone dry.

He said that though the state government had declared that it would compensate farmers for their loss, they had not received anything so far.

He demanded that the state government should declare drought in the state.