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Beed: At Kesapuri Parbhani, a village with fort-like stone structures and saffron flags on rooftops in MaharashtrasBeed district, Pankaja Munde of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) says she has always backed the Maratha communitys demand for reservation in government jobs and state-run educational institutions through lawful means...
Pankaja Munde, daughter of late BJP stalwart Gopinath Munde, is the BJP candidate from Beed Lok Sabha seat, which her father won in 2009 and 2014..
Munde, who has inherited the goodwill towards her father on his home turf, will face off against Bajrang Sonwane of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)..
If we have to complete Gopinath jisdream, wehave tosend Pankajataito the Parliament, he says.. However, the fact that Gopinath Mundes younger daughter Pritam has been MP for two terms but still did not make it to Prime Minister Narendra Modis cabinet remains unsaid..
In my house, my party, or my culture, we never discussed that or uttered these things on a dais or a public forum, which is happening a lot this election, which is very unfortunate, Munde says.. The former MLA has been facing the headwinds of the Maratha agitation during her campaign, with the Maratha community members showing black flags, sloganeering, and posting on social media about the issue..
