Election held after 30 yrs: Popatrao Pawar`s panel sweeps Gram Panchayat polls in Maharashtra`s Hiwrebazar
(WorldNews India)

Residents of Hiwrebazar in Ahmednagar district have once again reposed their faith in the development model, resulting in the Popatrao Pawar panel sweeping the Gram Panchayat polls. Pawar (61), a Padma Shri awardee, recieved a thumping majority with all nine members in his panel emerging victorious against the rival panel led by a private school teacher, Kishore Samble. Read |Savitribai Phule Pune University honours icons on 71st foundation day Hiwrebazar was keenly watched as Gram Panchayat elections took place here after thirty years. In the last three decades, the village had unanimously chosen the politics of consensus, supporting the development model and its chief architect...