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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) person Ajit Pawar was killed connected Wednesday (Janaury 28, 2026) greeting aft an craft carrying them crashed successful Pune district. The incidental occurred erstwhile the plane, carrying the NCP person and 4 others, crashed portion landing astir 8:40 a.m. successful the Baramati area.
In a governmental vocation spanning astir 4 decades, it had been lone 2.5 years since Pawar stepped retired of the agelong shadiness of his uncle and undivided Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar.
Ajit Pawar held respective cardinal ministerial portfolios successful Maharashtra from 1999 onwards, including Irrigation, Water Conservation, Energy & Planning, and Finance. He served arsenic Minister of Irrigation from 1999 to 2003 and headed the Water Resources Ministry betwixt 2004 and 2010. He was Deputy Chief Minister connected aggregate occasions, with complaint of Finance and Planning from 2010 to 2012 and again from 2019 to 2022, and returned arsenic Deputy Chief Minister successful July 2023 pursuing the divided successful the NCP.
The five-time Deputy Chief Minister nether assorted Chief Ministers, erstwhile said: “I privation to go Chief Minister 1 time and instrumentality my ain plans for the people’s welfare.” But the level clang chopped his beingness short.
