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PUNE: NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Saturday accused the Pune Municipal Corporation 's ruling party - BJP - of mismanaging water distribution.He said the ruling party of the corporation should have introduced a water cut earlier in the year to manage the resource.He questioned why the corporation's ruling party did not put any curbs on the drinking water being used for construction and other allied activities. "When I was the irrigation minister and guardian minister for Pune for 10 years, we saw worse water crisis, but we managed it through water cuts,'' said Pawar.When asked about the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (MWRRA)'s decision to allot only 8.19 TMC water per year to the civic body, he said the final decision was with the state government..