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BJP urges Fadnavis to probe if smog from Rohit Pawar’s sugar factory led to air crash

BJP Yuva Morcha's Pune district president, Vaibhav Solankar, has written to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis demanding an investigation into the alleged polluting smog from a sugar factory owned by Rohit Pawar, an MLA of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, located 17 km away from the Baramati airstrip, which allegedly caused low visibility and led to the crash of an aircraft carrying Ajit Pawar.

Shinde nominates Jyoti Waghmare as Rajya Sabha candidate

Earlier on Thursday, Shinde initially decided to spring a surprise by announcing two candidates for the Rajya Sabha election, namely Professor Jyoti Waghmare and Rohit Tilak, who happens to be the great-grandson of Lokmanya Tilak, in a bid to pit Tilak against the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi's (MVA) only Rajya Sabha candidate, NCP founder Sharad Pawar.