Knives were out as former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said "law will catch up" with former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in the irrigation scam, prompting a strong retaliation from the NCP leader who said his party would order a probe into the decisions taken by his former boss during the last two months.
Amid a bitter verbal duel between the two former comrades-in-arms, NCP also withdrew its candidate for Karad South Assembly seat from where Chavan is contesting and has decided to support sitting Congress Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Vilas Patil Undalkar, a seven-time legislator, who is in the fray as an independent.