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The BJP had won the Pune Lok Sabha seat both in 2014 and 2019 by a big margin. But the seat got vacated after the demise of sitting MP Girish Bapat in March this year.
'As a police officer, I had gone on deputation to the prison department; on both occasions (the hanging of Ajmal Kasab and Yakub Memon), the government said that I should remain present.' 'I was not mentally prepared for these sensitive operations and had to work on myself to lead the teams.'
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Though the name of the district minister is not mentioned in the book, Madam Commissioner, the retired IPS officer apparently points to Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar, the present deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. Pawar held the post of 'guardian minister' of Pune district at the time, when the state had a Congress-NCP government.
Speaking about the concept, Bawankule noted that such gatherings are important for party leaders to interact with common workers