Pankaja Munde, BJP candidate from B constituency of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, central Maharashtra, on Wednesday said she wanted to fulfill the dreams of her late father, veteran BJP leader Gopinath Munde.

Pankaja was speaking on the stage at a rally in Beed along with her cousin Dhananjay Munde.

He said, "I have in my eyes the dreams of Gopinath Munde for the people here. Such an opportunity will not come again."

He also cautioned his workers that the election should not be considered easy.

"There are many issues in Beed, but I tried to resolve them... Our opposition candidate (Bajrang Sonawane of Sharad Pawar-led NCP) was the first Zilla Parishad member. When I was the district guardian minister, the roads in his circle were was constructed,” said former Maharashtra minister Pankaja.

Notably, Pankaja was defeated by Dhananjay Munde in the 2019 assembly elections. The long-lost cousins ​​are now together because Dhananjay's party, the Ajit Pawar-led NCP, is an ally of the BJP.

Dhananjay Munde, now a minister in the state, said locals want the Beed-Mumbai Vand Bharat Express, and "the elections are for this."

This time, BJP has removed sitting MP Pritam Munde and fielded his elder sister Pankaja.