India, April 9 -- Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP president Sunetra Pawar met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday to discuss the strategy and campaign for the April 23 Baramati assembly bypoll she is contesting.

Sources said Fadnavis assured Sunetra Pawar of full support from the BJP as an "elder brother".

Sunetra Pawar was accompanied by her son Parth Pawar and other NCP leaders, sources said. The meeting discussed campaigning and strategy for the bypoll, which became necessary after the then Deputy CM Ajit Pawar was killed in a plane crash. He had represented the constituency eight times. Despite appeals made by ruling parties to ensure an unopposed election as a tribute to Ajit Pawar, the opposition Congress has f...