Ajit Pawar was a notable political leader in Maharashtra who influenced the State’s political landscape for almost four decades.
He started his political career with the Indian National Congress in the late 1980s, influenced by his uncle Sharad Pawar. Later, he joined Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) upon its formation in 1999 and served several terms as Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister in coalitions led by the NCP over the past two decades.
In November 2019, Ajit Pawar briefly left the NCP to serve as Deputy Chief Minister in a BJP cabinet and later retu
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