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Sharad Pawar to tour drought-hit Beed in Maharashtra

| @indiablooms | May 12, 2019, at 04:11 pm

Beed, Maharashtra, May 12 (UNI): Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will visit this district on May 13 to interact with the farmers hit hard by the calamitous effects of drought.

The veteran politician will visit several villages in the talukas of Ashti and Patoda where he will converse with the ryots facing agrarian crisis owing to drought.

Later, he will take a stock of the existing situations at the fodder camps setup at the Navgan Rajuri and Pimpalwandi here.

In between, he will speak to reporters and also go to the horticulture gardens which have been damaged, said the NCP.

All along his way, Mr Pawar will be accompanied by the Maharashtra Legislative Council Leader of Opposition Dhananjay Munde as well as other prominent leaders, the party said.

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