1. Ajit Anantrao Pawar is an Indian politician serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra along with Eknath Shinde under Devendra Fadnavis since 5 December 2024.
16 Facts About Ajit Pawar
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Ajit Pawar is the longest serving Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra non-consecutively.
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Ajit Pawar has served this position for 6 terms within various governments.
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Ajit Pawar has worked as deputy chief minister within the cabinets of Prithviraj Chavan, Devendra Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde.
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Ajit Pawar served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 2022 to 2023 and represented Baramati Lok Sabha constituency in 1991.
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Ajit Pawar is son of Ashatai Pawar and Anantrao Pawar, the brother of Sharad Pawar, the president of the Nationalist Congress Party and a four-time former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
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Ajit Pawar did his schooling Deolali Pravara but dropped out of college to help his family after the death of his father.
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Ajit Pawar was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1991 from the Baramati Parliamentary constituency.
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Ajit Pawar first won in the 1991 by election and retained it for five consecutive terms in 1995,1999,2004,2009, and 2014.
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Ajit Pawar served as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Power in CM Sudhakarrao Naik's government from 1991 to 1992.
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Ajit Pawar became the Minister of State for Soil Conservation, Power and Planning in 1992 when Sharad Pawar became the Chief Minister.
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Ajit Pawar was additionally given the Rural Development Department in 2003 as part of Sushilkumar Shinde's cabinet.
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Ajit Pawar submitted a paper with the signatures of NCP's MLAs to the Governor to prove the government's majority.
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Ajit Pawar subsequently returned to the NCP, and on 1 December 2019, it was announced that he would take over as Deputy CM for the Maha Vikas Aghadi government after the start of the winter session of the state legislature on 16 December.
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The faction led by Sharad Ajit Pawar will be henceforth known as Nationalist Congress Party.
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However, the allegations were not proved, and Ajit Pawar was reinstated as the Deputy CM of Maharashtra.