Mumbai: Just weeks after he rebuked a young woman IPS officer taking action against illegal sand mining, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has found himself in the centre of a controversy once again. This time for snapping at a farmer in Marathwada who lost his crop in the floods.

Pawar was meeting farmers affected by the floods at a village in Bhoom-Paranda taluk of Dharashiv district. When a farmer asked him if the government would declare a loan waiver for them, the deputy CM said: “Why don’t we make him the chief minister? Don’t you think we understand? Are we here to play gottya (marbles)? I have been working since 6 am. You are trying to suppress (the voice of) those who are working.”

He added: “I am here to console you all. I have to go to another place as well. We und

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