Ajit Pawar plane crash LIVE: Pawar's funeral today in Baramati; Amit Shah to attend

The past rites of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, killed successful a level crash, volition beryllium held with afloat State honours connected Thursday (January 29, 2026) astatine 11 a.m. astatine Vidya Pratishthan successful Baramati, Pune

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP nationalist president Nitin Nabin, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the State furniture volition beryllium contiguous astatine the funeral. Leaders cutting crossed the governmental spectrum volition beryllium present, the Nationalist Congress Party said.

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Pinki Mali, a formation attendant from Bhainsa colony successful Jaunpur territory of Uttar Pradesh, was among those killed connected Wednesday (January 28) successful a level clang that besides claimed the beingness of NCP person and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and 3 others, officials and household sources said.

Pinki had been surviving with her household successful Mumbai and was connected committee the chartered craft that crashed, they added.

The quality of her decease brought heavy mourning to her autochthonal village, with residents gathering to console her grieving family.

According to villagers, Pinki’s begetter Shivkumar Mali, an NCP leader, had moved to Mumbai respective years agone with his family. Pinki completed her acquisition successful Thane and was joined astir a twelvemonth agone successful Gorakhpur.

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In an evident snub to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, NCP (SP) President Sharad Pawar connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) said the level clang involving his nephew Ajit Pawar and 4 others was an mishap which shouldn’t beryllium politicised.

Addressing reporters, helium said Ajit’s decease was a large daze for Maharashtra, which has mislaid a hardworking and businesslike leader, and this nonaccomplishment is irreparable. “Not each things are successful our hands,” helium added.

“A basal was floated from Kolkata that determination is immoderate authorities progressive successful this incident. But determination is thing similar this. There is nary authorities successful it. It was an accident. I petition not to bring authorities into it,” helium added.

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The roads successful Baramati were teeming with radical arsenic mourners flooded the streets to scope Vidya Pratishthan, an acquisition field of the Pawars, connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) evening, aft the mortal remains of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP person Ajit Pawar were brought.

All shops were unopen and constabulary beingness was beefed up, arsenic hundreds of vehicles made a beeline. A fewer kilometres away, astatine the clang tract adjacent the Baramati airstrip, constabulary were deployed to power the assemblage that thronged the site.

Forensic teams walked into the clang tract to cod samples, arsenic ambulances and convoys zapped past the airstrip. Mr. Pawar’s level had crashed conscionable a fewer metres from the runway, adjacent a field. The interaction was truthful severe, said eyewitnesses, that they heard respective blasts successful the morning.

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