What's the deal? Outlook has discovered that the head honcho at Mulapravara is Radhakrishna Bhike-Patil—a former Congress (I) MLA who has just changed sides and been rewarded with a ministerial post in the Shiv Sena-BJP government. Bhike-Patil's father, Balasaheb, was one of the original sugar barons who set up sugar cooperatives, which have, over the decades, had a significant impact on Maharashtra politics.