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Sunetra Pawar and Ajit Pawar (File photo) Sunetra Pawar’s elevation as the national president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) marks a defining moment for the party. Her promotion was necessitated by what is arguably the NCP’s gravest crisis yet — the untimely demise of her husband and the party’s then-chief, Ajit Pawar, in a…
EOW had given a clean chit in the case to the late Ajit Pawar and deputy CM Sunetra Pawar, with their nephew Rohit, MUMBAI: A court for MPs/MLAs cases Friday accepted the two closure reports submitted by Mumbai police’s EOW in the Rs 25,000 crore Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank scam case involving prominent netas who…
NEW DELHI: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday formally elected Maharashtra deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar as its new national president, nearly a month after the death of her husband, Ajit Pawar, who held both positions at the time.Ajit Pawar died in a private plane crash in his hometown of Baramati on January 28….
MUMBAI: After assuming the role of Maharashtra’s deputy CM, Sunetra Pawar is set to become NCP national chief, replacing husband Ajit Pawar who was killed in an air crash last week. Amid speculation about whether he would take up the role, party working president Praful Patel ruled himself out of the race and said the…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s first woman deputy CM Sunetra Pawar continues to face legal scrutiny in the Rs 25,000 crore Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank (MSCB) scam, where ED had, in its charge sheet, mentioned her along with Ajit Pawar. The Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police granted the couple a clean chit, but ED objected to the…
She Gets All Of Ajit’s Portfolios Except Finance The “merger talks” between the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) appear to be on the backburner now following Sunetra Pawar’s appointment as deputy CM.Sharad Pawar’s statement that he was not aware of Sunetra Pawar’s swearing-in and that “it is their internal decision” confirms…
Mumbai: Sunetra Pawar, 62, was sworn in as the first woman deputy chief minister of Maharashtra on Saturday evening, replacing her husband Ajit Pawar just three days after his death in an air crash. The ceremony had an emotional touch, with workers of Ajit’s NCP raising slogans of ‘Ajit Pawar Amar Rahe’ and ‘Ekach Vaada,…
Sunetra Pawar sworn in as Maharashtra deputy chief minister NEW DELHI: By electing Sunetra Pawar as its legislative party leader and subsequently elevating her as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister—the first woman to hold the post—just three days after the untimely demise of Ajit Pawar, the NCP has swiftly filled two of the three positions held…
Maharashtra politics has rarely been short of convulsions, but even by the state’s turbulent standards, the untimely demise of deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar in the January 28 plane crash has thrown up a new challenge to the coastal state’s already fragile political equilibrium. The loss of Ajit ‘Dada’…
NEW DELHI: Minutes after taking oath as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, Sunetra Pawar on Saturday said that she will “carry forward the legacy” of her late husband Ajit Pawar and “continue to work tirelessly” for Maharashtra.In her first public reaction after Ajit Pawar’s death in a fatal plane crash, Sunetra said that she…
