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Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar died in a plane crash near Baramati in Pune district on Wednesday morning.
The incident happened when Pawar’s aircraft, which was enroute from Mumbai, tried to make an emergency landing in Baramati. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief has represented the Baramati constituency in the Parliament and the Maharashtra assembly constituency since 1991.
Pawar was in Mumbai on Tuesday where he attended a meeting of the Maharashtra Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure chaired by CM Devendra Fadnavis.
Ajit Pawar has remained an influential figure in Maharashtra politics ever since he joined the Eknath Shinde government along with eight MLAs in July 2024, leading to a split in the NCP.
Pawar, who is known as “Dada”, has been a key ally in the Mahayuti government. When the Mahayuti government came to power under Eknath Shinde in 2022, the ruling ally got its support from Pawar a year later following the NCP split.
In the 2024 assembly elections Ajit Pawar fought together with the BJP-Shiv Sena, and won 41 seats in the state. Pawar was also sworn in as the deputy CM, along with Eknath Shinde.