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Sunetra Pawar sworn in as Maharashtra's Deputy CM
Financial Express Chandigarh
|February 01, 2026
FIRST WOMAN IN STATE TO HOLD POST
AMIDST CHANTS OF 'Ajit dada amar rahe', Sunetra Pawar, leader of the Nationalist Congress Party and widow of the late Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday took oath as the state's Deputy CM at Lok Bhavan in Mumbai.
Maharashtra Governor Acharya Devvrat administered the oath of office to Sunetra Pawar in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Eknath Shinde. She stepped into fill the post that became vacant following the demise of Ajit Pawar in a plane crash on January 28 in Baramati. With this Sunetra Pawar becomes the first woman Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
This story is from the February 01, 2026 edition of Financial Express Chandigarh.
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