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The 'corporate' MP from Baramati

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Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
 Even as the government was mulling the issue, a man whom the NDA government would not normally have tapped for the job, offered himself for it.

 The truth is, since the pesticide controversy hit the newspapers, Sharad Pawar, who entered politics in 1958, was chief minister of Maharashtra three times and was a moving force in getting the affluent sugar industry in Maharashtra to band itself into cooperatives, had been a deeply worried man.

 The night the JPC was announced, some friends and he got together to meet on the implications of the controversy not just on India
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First Published: Nov 03 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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