‘Parth and I may differ in opinion, but we’ll always be together’ ByArchana MoreArchana More / Updated: Jun 30, 2021, 06:00 IST ► INTERVIEW: SHARAD PAWAR WHILE ROHIT PAWAR IS NOT FROM THE CITY, PUNE MIRROR’S ‘LEADERS OF THE CITY’ INITIATIVE HAD A SPECIAL INVITE FOR HIM AFTER SEVERAL REQUESTS FROM READERS. THE NCP LEADER OPENED HIS HEART OUT ABOUT STRUGGLES FACED AS A STUDENT, POLITICAL LIFE, MVA’S HANDLING OF THE PANDEMIC, AND MORE Despite growing up in the country’s one of the largest political dynasties, Rohit Pawar, grand-nephew of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, had to be deprived of higher education due to financial crisis. But the lack of higher education never came on his way to become a youth leader with an immense fan following. The 35-year-old’s first political success came in 2017, when he won the Pune Zilla Parishad seat by a margin of more than 12,000 votes. In October 2019, he won the state assembly election from the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency and became the third-generation member of the Pawar family to win the elections with 1,35,824 votes.