Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party’s Rajya Sabha member Sunetra Pawar has sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, replacing her deceased husband and party chief Ajit Pawar, at the Lok Bhavan at 5 pm on Saturday, January 31.
Right as she took the oath as the Deputy Chief Minister, there were fervent chants of “Ajit Dada amar rahe” from NCP workers.
Ajit Pawar died on Wednesday, January 28, after a plane carrying him and four others crashed in Baramati.
She became the first Dy CM of Maharashtra in the wake of the sympathy wave three days after her husband’s demise and is likely to fight for elections from Baramati.
The two factions of NCP, meanwhile, are in serious talks of unification. However, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar had earlier distanced himself from the swearing-in of Sunetra.
