Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, four others killed in plane crash; Probe begins into the reasons for the crash Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four other persons on board an aircraft were killed after it crashed near the Baramati airport in Pune district on Wednesday. Pawar had taken off from Mumbai in the morning to address four rallies in the day in Pune district for the February 5 zilla parishad elections. The others killed in the tragedy were Captain Sumit

Mumbai: Ajit Ashatai Anantrao Pawar - who straddled Maharashtra’s political landscape like a colossus for nearly 45 years - was snuffed out in a plane crash in Pune early on Wednesday, plunging his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) into precarity and the ruling Mahayuti government into turmoil. The nephew of Nationalist Congress Party (SP) President Sharad Govindrao Pawar, Ajit Pawar was 66 and is survived by his wife Sunetra, an MP, and two sons, Parth and Jay. Parth, a wanna

Pawar was both trusted and deeply connected with the masses Pune: It was almost heartbreaking for me to hear about the plane crash in Baramati. The sudden and shocking death of Ajitdada Pawar, along with his staff, has left me deeply shaken. My mind went back to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. That was when I had the chance to work with him during Sunetra Pawar’s campaign against Supriya Sule in the Baramati constituency. During those days, I was deeply touched by the personal

Governor Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde arrive to pay their last respects to Ajit Pawar in Baramati. Mumbai: Ajit Pawar’s sudden death has thrown Maharashtra’s fragile post 2023 political arithmetic into flux. The immediate question is whether the two NCP factions will merge — stabilising both the Centre and the Mahayuti in the short term — or whether a split realignment will strengthen the BJP at the expense of a dis