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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.
“We person deployed rather a fewer constabulary unit present arsenic the crowds kept swelling,” a constabulary serviceman said.
As the prima acceptable and TV journalists did walkthroughs to amusement the assemblage and the site, State Cabinet Minister Chhagan Bhujbal’s convoy trundled in. “It is simply a shock. We were sitting unneurotic conscionable yesterday, held a fewer meetings. He was a beardown person who held the full enactment together. I don’t cognize what volition hap now,” helium said.
NCP person Zeeshan Siddiqui said Mr. Pawar’s decease was an “unfathomable shock”.
The household of a bodyguard of the deceased person broke down arsenic it rushed to Baramati from Mumbai.
At Vidya Pratishthan, Usha Namdev Gadadare sat softly successful a corner, holding backmost tears. A widow of a warfare hero, she said ‘Ajit Dada’ was much than household to her.
“As soon arsenic I saw the quality connected TV, I rushed from Neera. He was truthful delicate towards the needs of the poor. Last year, erstwhile I went to Mumbai astatine the Sahyadri impermanent house, helium called maine adjacent arsenic scores of men were waiting. I lone sent my sanction and ‘veerpatni’ (wife of a warfare hero) written connected a chit. He told maine that I should interaction him if I faced immoderate troubles,” she recalled. “He instantly helped maine get a fewer acres of onshore nether the authorities strategy meant for warfare widows. He besides donated ₹25 lakh aft helium came to cognize that a memorial of my hubby was pending owed to deficiency of funds,” she said.
A fewer metres away, Rajya Sabha MP and Mr. Pawar’s cousin, Supriya Sule, ran hurriedly betwixt a room, wherever each elder leaders were sitting with Sharad Pawar, and the structure of Vidya Pratishthan. Praful Patel was seen by the broadside of the family, and truthful was NCP person Jayant Patil.
Outside the main porch, hundreds of enactment workers gathered, shouting slogans. Burly men broke down amid the assemblage and hugged each other, arsenic the household members and the staffers bore a stoic look.
A frail Sharad Pawar walked retired aft the meetings, amid sloganeering by enactment workers. The tragic decease of a rebellious lad had brought the full household together. The elder Pawar would not person wanted specified a reunion.
