Deputy chief minister R R Patil may be the villain for the
Page 3 circuit and the intelligentsia but the readers of Maharashtra
Times have voted him the Hero of the Year by beating even
Sachin Tendulkar in the popularity chart. The poll was conducted
by SMS poll in which more than 13,000 readers of the Marathi
paper took part. In fact, Patil and Tendulkar together bagged
50 per cent of the votes.
Raj Thackeray polled more votes than Uddhav Thackeray
