Sunetra Pawar oath ceremony LIVE: Ajit Pawar's wife set to be Maharashtra's first woman Deputy CM

NCP Rajya Sabha subordinate Sunetra Pawar. | Photo Credit: PTI

Sunetra Pawar, woman of the deceased Nationalist Congress Party person Ajit Pawar, is acceptable to go the archetypal pistillate Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The NCP plans to clasp its Legislature Party gathering astatine 2 p.m. connected Saturday (January 31, 2026) to take its caller Legislature Party person to regenerate Mr. Pawar. A tiny swearing-in ceremonial is apt to hap aft that, apical sources from the NCP told The Hindu connected Friday (January 30, 2026). 

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The 62-year-old person is not a subordinate of either location of the Maharashtra legislature. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the BJP, which heads the ruling confederation Mahayuti, would enactment immoderate determination taken by the household and enactment of Ajit Pawar.

Political developments quickened successful Maharashtra, 3 days aft the abrupt death of Ajit Pawar, the NCP supremo and the State’s Deputy CM, successful an aerial clang astatine Baramati. His woman is presently the party’s sitting Member of Parliament successful the Rajya Sabha.