India, April 7 -- Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Sunetra Pawar on Monday filed her nomination papers for the April 23 Baramati Assembly bypoll.

She filed the papers in the presence of her party colleagues Sunil Tatkare, Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dhananjay Munde and Hasan Mushrif, as well as Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, who heads the Shiv Sena, and State minister and BJP leader Chandrashekhar Bawankule. The three parties comprise the ruling Mahayuti.

Before filing her nomination papers, she made an emotional appeal to the people of Baramati to stand by her in the same way as they always supported her late husband, Ajit Pawar. The death of then Deputy CM and NCP stalwart Ajit Pawar in a plane crash on January 28 necessi...