In a dramatic turn of events on Thursday it has emerged that former home minister Anil Deshmukh’s son Salil Deshmukh, who is contesting the Assembly election on a Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar ticket from Katol near Nagpur, will be facing his father’s namesake, Anil Shankarrao Deshmukh, whose nomination was endorsed by the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) despite its Mahayuti ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) putting its candidate in the fray much ahead of the nomination process.

Anil Deshmukh, former home minister