Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has claimed that the recent Maharashtra elections saw an unprecedented level of power and money being used to control the election process, a situation that has never been witnessed in any state or national polls before.

Pawar made the comments during his visit to senior activist Dr. Baba Adhav, who has been protesting against the alleged manipulation of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the recently concluded Maharashtra state elections. Dr. Adhav, who is in his 90s, began his protest on Thursday at Phule Wada, the residence of the prominent social reformer Jyotiba Phule, and is set to continue for three days.