Gram panchayat polls in Baramati: The Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction) on Monday claimed panels backed by it swept the elections to gram panchayats in the Pawar family turf of Baramati in Maharashtra's Pune district, winning 30 of the 32 village councils on offer.

The other two gram panchayats were won by panels supported by the BJP, an ally of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's faction of the NCP, which suffered a split in early July.