He has called it "the biggest mistake of his
political life" but Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra , isn't being forgiven for mocking the water
and power problems defeating the state's farmers.
A urinal in Jalna, a part of Marathwada mangled by
drought, has been named after the leader, retribution for his asking
sarcastically "should we urinate" when discussing the poverty of
water.
A poster on the urinal, put up by Arvind Kejriwal's
Aam Aadmi Party, says: "AJIT URINAL, Aam Aadmi Party Jalna protests Ajit
Pawar's statement of offering urine to the parched, drought stricken people."
At a rally, Mr. Pawar had ridiculed a man who has spent nearly two months on a
hunger strike, demanding that the state release water for his farm and others.
He had said that, ‘there is this person from Solapur, sitting on hunger
strike for 55 days demanding water be released from the dam. But where are we
going to get water from? Should we urinate? And when we don't have water to
drink, it's hard to pass urine as well’.
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