Overview
- Pangarkar is contesting from Ward 13 in the January 15 Jalna Municipal Corporation election against candidates from the BJP and smaller parties.
- He is on bail granted by the Karnataka High Court on September 4, 2024 in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, where the trial has been underway since May 2022 after 18 suspects were charge-sheeted.
- The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has not fielded a candidate in the ward where Pangarkar is running.
- Pangarkar was arrested by the Maharashtra ATS in August 2018 over seizures of crude bombs and weapons and was booked under the Explosives laws and the UAPA.
- A former Jalna Municipal Council member for the undivided Shiv Sena from 2001 to 2006, he later joined the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti after being denied a Shiv Sena ticket in 2011, and his 2024 Shiv Sena induction was put on hold following public outcry.