Former Union minister Sharad Pawar said that he and nephew Ajit Pawar, who is the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, are together as a family, but made it clear that the latter was heading a different political party.

"Gharat tari ekatrach ahet (we are together at home least)," the veteran politician while addressing the press at Chiplun in coastal Konkan region. He was responding to a query about the demand from "various quarters in the state" that the uncle-nephew duo should come together once again.