Sharad Pawar may have made many politicians' careers and truncated those of several others in his long stint that is distributed equally in positions of power and in the Opposition. But those with genuine respect for him express it anyway. The nephew expressed his undying love and respect for the uncle with his abrupt resignation from the Baramati seat and threatened to sink NCP in a political cesspool. Known for his raw and abrasive demeanour, Ajit presented a softer side of his persona when he couldn't hold back tears while describing the alleged attempts of blackening his uncle's image.

As effective as Sharad Pawar's well-thought-out scheme of visiting the Enforcement Directorate office, Ajit's emotional submission should boost a dipping morale of NCP leaders and workers who were crestfallen because of the bad press and the rumours of an imminent split in NCP that the decision of the party's number two had given rise to. Three hours before Ajit resigned, the uncle had dropped his plan to visit the ED office to submitting his explanation. He wasn't summoned but a political momentum that had built up in the run-up to NCP boss's much-publicised intention to submit himself to the ED fizzled out as abruptly.