Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)’s Maharashtra unit president and Lok Sabha MP Sunil Tatkare said on Wednesday the helicopter, which crashed in Pune killing three crew members
“The helicopter was booked by the party for the travelling purposes until the completion of the elections.
both Tatkare and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar travelled to Mumbai from Beed on Tuesday night to meet him as seat-sharing talks in the ruling Mahayuti are to be concluded soon.
“We came to Mumbai and the helicopter was in Pune. It was to come here (Mumbai) and take me to Sutarwadi,”
Tatkare had several programmes scheduled at his native place on Wednesday and after completing those, he was to return to Mumbai.
According to sources in the NCP, the crashed helicopter was deputed for Tatkare for over a month. “The company had given us the helicopter.