The estranged Munde cousins would be fighting it out again in Parli Assembly segment in Beed district of Marathwada. Sharad Pawar, chief of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), now on a state-wide campaign tour, has announced the leader of opposition in the upper house Dhananjay Munde as the official candidate from Parali where BJP's Pankaja Munde, rural development and woman & child welfare minister and daughter of late Gopinath Munde, is a sitting legislator. The two were locked in a battle in 2014 too when Dhananjay, Gopinath's nephew, had lost by 2.5 lakh votes.

Dhananjay had quit BJP in 2012 because he was upset over his uncle's promotion of the daughter. He joined the NCP and was made a member of the upper house. Pankaja's younger sister Dr Pritam Munder was elected as the Beed MP after her father's death in 2014. She retained her seat in 2019.