INDIA SUMMARIZED

In remarks that have drawn widespread adverse reactions, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday ridiculed the hunger-strike by a drought-affected farmer for the release of water, saying: “from where will we give him water? Should we urinate in dams?” NCP leader Ajit Pawar with party leaders after  a meeting in Mumbai on April 5.  PTI/Santosh Hirlekar Speaking at a function in Indapur taluka in Pune district on April 6, the senior Nationalist Congress Party leader had poked fun at the two-month-long protest by the farmer, Bhaiyya Deshmukh, who is demanding that more water be released to the region from Ujani dam. “This person named Deshmukh who has been fasting for more than 55 days at Mumbai's Azad Maidan demanding that water be released for his parched farm - from where will we give him water? Should we urinate in dams? Even urinating has become difficult, as there is no water to drink.” Pawar, who had earlier held the water resource...