The BJP accuses NCP of playing vendetta politics, while the latter denies all allegations and mulls legal action against BJP.The Maharashtra unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) of cutting water in the villages where people didn’t vote for them. The Sharad Pawar-led NCP faced a severe debacle in the recent Lok Sabha elections.Accusing NCP of playing “vendetta politics”, BJP said the party controls the water resources and is now cutting off the water supply in areas where it lost by a huge margin.“There have been complaints about water and electricity supply getting cut in areas where the ruling parties did not get votes. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar had asked the people of a village near Pune to vote for NCP candidate Supriya Sule or face water cut. This seems to be the attitude of the ruling alliance,” alleged BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari.In April, a year after Pawar sparked an outrage with his urinate-in-dams remark during a crippling drought, he had touched off another row by allegedly threatening villagers that they would be deprived of water if they didn’t vote for his cousin Supriya Sule. He had made the comment in drought-prone Masalvadi village in Baramati Lok Sabha constituency.“My sister will not lose the election if one village votes against her as we have the entire Baramati backing us. I get to know from the machines (electronic voting machines) who voted for which party. If I come to know that Masalvadi has voted against the party, you will never get water, bear that in mind," Ajit Pawar reportedly told the villagers when they asked him why their demands for water were always ignored.While the Election Commission had ordered a probe into the matter, the NCP had denied that Pawar made such comments. The party had said the video clip was fabricated to damage Pawar’s reputation.Meanwhile, Bhandari alleged that Shahupuri in Satara, where NCP candidate Udayan Raje Bhonsale won, was not getting water for the past three days as the locals did not vote as per the expectations of the ruling party. In Tasgaon tehsil, which is the constituency of NCP leader and Home Minister RR Patil, water supply to 52 villages has been cut as BJP did well in the area in the polls, he alleged.In Beed district, where senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde won, the Parli area has been facing 16-hour power cuts daily, Bhandari said. He added that the local leaders and activists have been complaining of irregular water and electricity supply in the areas within days of the poll results.When contacted, NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said BJP’s allegations were baseless and misleading. “The allegations are completely baseless and are misleading the people. The earlier clip too was doctored and there was no substance in the allegations. We have asked for a factual report from the areas where the allegations have been made,” Malik said.“I wonder what the BJP thought before making such comments. Is all this possible in a democracy? We will decide on taking legal action against the BJP once we get a factual report from the districts,” he added.