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Mumbai: Days after he took over as finance minister, Ajit Pawar has begun allocating more development funds for constituencies represented by the rebel NCP MLAs who have joined him..
MLAs from the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena and the Sharad Pawar faction of NCP have claimed foul over this fund allocation...
This development is interesting for several reasons: the allocation of more of these development funds to MLAs close to Ajit Pawar is being seen as an incentive for those MLAs loyal to the Sharad Pawar faction to switch over to his camp..
Significantly, while others NCP MLAs close to Sharad Pawar faction like Jitendra Awhad have not got any funds in the supplementary grants, funds have been allocated for projects in Patil's constituency -- Islampur...
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