Former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has died in a plane crash today after an aircraft carrying them crash-landed in Baramati, Maharashtra while attempting to land. According to DGCA, five people, including the crew, on board the chartered plane flying from Mumbai, Maharashtra, to Baramati died after a crash-landing at 8.45 am this morning. The crash landing of the Mumbai-Baramati charter plane occurred at the runway threshold in Baramati. Pawar was onboard along with 2 more personnel (1 PSO and 1 attendent) and 2 crew members. Ajit Pawar dies in plane crash LIVE updates
Ajit Pawar's school and college life
The prominent, long-serving Maharashtrian politician was born on July, 22, 1959. He completed his schooling in Deolali Pravara, Ahmednagar. After schooling, he attended college but could not complete his graduation as he left college to help his family after the death of father.
Ajit Pawar's political career
Ajit Pawar was the longest-serving Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra non-consecutively. He served in the position for six terms within various governments. He had worked as deputy chief minister in the cabinets of Prithviraj Chavan, Devendra Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde. He is married to Sunetra Pawar, with whom he has two sons, Jay and Parth Pawar. In 1982, Ajit Pawar began his political career after being elected to the board of a cooperative sugar factory.
In 1991, he was elected as the chairman of the Pune District Central Cooperative Bank. He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1991 from the Baramati Parliamentary constituency and later vacated the seat for his uncle Sharad Pawar. He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly seven times from the Baramati Assembly constituency. He first won in a 1991 by-election and subsequently in 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014.
In November 2019, he engineered a split in the NCP and joined a government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and became the Deputy Chief Minister. In February 2024, the Election Commission awarded the party name and symbol to the faction headed by Ajit Pawar.
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