Why villages in Maharashtra are auctioning off sarpanch posts? Why villages in Maharashtra are auctioning off sarpanch posts? | India Today Insight In two recent instances, villages auctioned the village headman’s post to the highest bidder advertisement ANI Photo A new trend of auctioning the post of a sarpanch has emerged in Maharashtra in the run up to the gram panchayat elections scheduled for January 2021. Some influential or wealthy people in several villages are said to have paid a hefty amount for “development work” in that particular village from their own pocket in lieu of an assurance from voters that they will be unanimously elected as