farmhouse

BJP corporator

Ganesh Bidkar

Apti village

Ruby Hall Clinic

Bharatiya Janata Party

and former standing committee chairman,, sustained a bullet injury in his leg when he accidently fired a shot while cleaning his revolver. The incident took place on Thursday noon at his farmhouse inof Shirur tehsil. Bidkar was rushed to, Pune, where he underwent a surgery. Doctors have said that his condition is stable.The screening tests at the facility showed that the bullet was not in his leg. “There were entry and exit wounds on his left thigh. The bullet was not lodged inside his body. He has sustained injuries in that particular area. His condition is stable as of now,” said Dr Sanjay Pathare, medical director of Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune.According to the doctors, he was administered the required treatment followed by a surgery on his leg.A medico-legal case has been registered and is being investigated now.Bidkar, known to be a close aide of Sanjay Kakade —(BJP) associate MP — has held the position of standing committee chairman during the Pune pattern. While he contested the elections in 2017 as well, he lost to the Congress corporator Ravindra Dhangekar. Otherwise known for his polite behaviour, and his proximity to the chief minister, Bidkar’s uglier side came to fore after he got into a scuffle with his opponent Ravindra Dhangekar following his loss in the Municipal election in 2017. After a few months he was co-opted as a corporator by BJP.