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Shri Ajit Anantrao Pawar

Ajit Anantrao Pawar (22 July 1959) is a Nationalist Congress Party politician. Since 2 July 2023, he has been serving as Deputy Chief Minister in the Cabinet of the current Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde, along with Devendra Fadnavis. During 2022-23, he has worked as Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He has also worked as an MP from Baramati Lok Sabha Constituency.

He represents Baramati Assembly Constituency since 1991. He is the nephew of Nationalist Congress president Sharad Pawar. He has been the Deputy Chief Minister of the state for the longest time, and is currently serving the post for the fifth time. In 2019, he was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister along with Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis. He claimed that he had the support of a majority of Nationalist Congress MLAs. But both of them resigned within 3 days. In 2023, he was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister in Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's cabinet, leaving his uncle Sharad Pawar, causing an unprecedented split in the Nationalist Congress.

Ajit Pawar also claimed the post of President of Nationalist Congress. Expressed his desire to keep the party name and election symbol and hinted at taking over the Nationalist Congress Party from incumbent President Sharad Pawar.

Ajit Pawar is one of the few leaders in Maharashtra who is always in the news for that reason. He was always severely criticized by media and opponents. Ajit Pawar has transformed the city by doing a lot of development works in Pimpri Chinchwad.
Ajit Pawar's native village is Katewadi in Baramati taluka of Pune district. But he was born in his native village Devlali Pravara in Rahuri taluka of Ahmednagar district.

He did his education up to class 10 there. Ajit Pawar came to Mumbai for his college education, after completing his education he came to Baramati and started his social and political work in cooperative societies there.

Ajit Pawar entered politics in 1982. In the same year, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Cooperative Sugar Factory.
He was elected as the President of Pune District Cooperative Bank in 1991. He was in that position for 16 years.

Ajit Pawar was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Baramati in 1991. Later he resigned from MP for his uncle Sharad Pawar. After that, Sharad Pawar P.V. He became the Defense Minister in the Narasimha Rao government. After Ajit Pawar, he was elected as an MLA to the Legislative Assembly for five consecutive times in 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014. In 1995, a coalition government (BJP + Shiv Sena) came to power in Maharashtra. After that, in 1999, the Congress-Nationalist Congress Alliance came again.
In the Vilasrao Deshmukh government of Maharashtra, he was promoted and given the post of cabinet minister. He held the irrigation account from October 1999 to December 2003. From December 2003 to October 2004, he was given additional charge of Rural Development Department.
When the coalition government (Congress + Nationalist Congress + others) came back to power in 2004, the irrigation account was held by Ajit Pawar. He was made Guardian Minister of Pune in 2004. He was the guardian minister of Pune till 2014 when the state was under the Congress-Nationalist Congress government. He is suspected of being responsible for the financial scam in the Pune District Central Co-operative Bank. Ajit Pawar resigned from MLA on September 27, 2019 before the Enforcement Directorate started investigating the matter.

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