The 13-chapter textbook, titled Exploration, replaces the earlier book first published in 2006, which originally had 15 chapters and was later reduced to 12 after rationalisation in 2022
Tanpure, a former minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and son of former MLA Prasad Tanpure, decided not to enter the fray after meeting Maharashtra BJP president Ravindra Chavan and BJP minister Radhakrishna Vikhe