National News
Ajit Pawar cremated with full state honours; Amit Shah, top leaders attend last rites
The last rites of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who was killed in a plane crash, were performed with full state honours on Thursday at Baramati in Pune district.
The last rites of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who was killed in a plane crash, were performed with full state honours on Thursday at Baramati in Pune district.
The funeral was held at the Vidya Pratishthan ground in Baramati, around 100 km from Pune, where a large number of political leaders, party workers and local residents gathered to pay their final respects to the 66-year-old Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, former Union Minister Sharad Pawar, and BJP national president J.P. Nadda attended the funeral. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde were also present.
Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar, a Rajya Sabha member, his sons Parth and Jay, cousin and Baramati MP Supriya Sule, and NCP working president and former Union Minister Praful Patel were among the family members and senior leaders present at the ceremony.
Parth and Jay lit the funeral pyre, bidding an emotional farewell to their father.
Earlier in the day, the mortal remains of Ajit Pawar were taken from Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Hospital in Baramati, where they had been kept overnight, to his native village before being brought to the funeral ground.
Ajit Pawar’s death in the plane crash has sent shockwaves across Maharashtra’s political landscape, with leaders across party lines expressing grief and remembering his long political career and influence in state politics.
