Rajya Sabha MP Sunetra Pawar today took oath as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister. The 62-year-old is the state’s first woman deputy chief minister. This comes after the sudden demise of her husband and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a plane crash earlier this week.
Earlier in the day, Ms Pawar was unanimously elected as the leader of the NCP legislature party during a meeting of the party’s legislature wing, held at the office of late Ajit Pawar in the Vidhan Bhavan complex in South Mumbai. Sunetra Pawar’s name was proposed by senior NCP leader Dilip Walse Patil and seconded by Food and Civil Supplies Minister Chhagan Bhujbal.
