 "Cong, NCP go for each other's jugular as poll scene hots up")
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.
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