India, Jan. 4 -- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar on Saturday blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) local leadership for stalled infrastructure projects in Pune, alleging that despite having a clear majority in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the party failed to deliver on key civic works.

Without naming individuals directly, Pawar referred to a "trio" responsible for poor infrastructural development in the city, an apparent reference to BJP leaders Murlidhar Mohol, Ganesh Bidkar and Chandrakant Patil.

Pawar cited projects such as the Katraj-Kondhwa road, the 24x7 water supply scheme and the JICA-funded sewage treatment project, alleging that work on all of them was progressing at a sluggish pace.

"Now the ti...