For past several months, several rallies have been organised all over Maharashtra which focused on female fetus abortion, dowry system and women empowerment in general.

[5] The allegations, made by IPS officer Ravindranath Patil, claimed that bitcoins seized during a Pune Police investigation into a multi-crore cryptocurrency ponzi scheme were illegally sold, with proceeds funneled into the elections via hawala channels.

Patil, who had been involved as a forensic auditor in the original 2018 investigation, alleged that a seized cryptocurrency hardware wallet had been swapped, and funds were misappropriated under the instructions of senior officials, including former Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta.

[7] Sule and Pawar also face a CBI probe over obtaining illegal permissions for the construction of a private hill station at Lavasa in Pune.

[11][12][13][14] In June 2010, The Economic Times, India's largest business newspaper, reported that Sharad Pawar and Supriya Sule owned 16.22 percent of a firm that had bid for the Pune franchise of IPL.