Aurangabad, Maharashtra, Sep 27 (UNI) Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Haribhau Bagade on Friday evening confirmed that NCP senior leader and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar resigned from the Assembly.
While talking to electronic media here, the Speaker said that Pawar came to his office at around 1730 hrs and submitted his resignation.
Moreover, the NCP leader requested to immediately accept his resignation, Bagade stated.
When asked about reason of his resignation, Bagade replied, "I don't know but when I asked him, he told me that he do not want to talk on this issue and will tell it later."
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, his nephew Ajit and others are named in the alleged money-laundering case of the Cooperative Bank.
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