Sunetra Pawar oath ceremony LIVE: Ajit Pawar’s wife elected leader of NCP Legislature party

Ajit Pawar’s wife will step into his shoes in a political combination the set aside the two other leaders, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP and Eknath Shinde of Shiv Sena, are dominant. Though she can gain pleasure from the sympathy and enhance of the occasion cadres and inside the authorities too, her political and administrative performance in the Mahayuti alliance will possible be keenly watched.

Ms. Pawar can maintain seasoned leaders take care of Chhagan Bhujbal, Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare by her aspect. But she can additionally maintain to eventually resolve on NCP(SP)’s inclusion.

Click on below to learn Vinaya Deshpande Pandit’s prognosis, ahead of Sunetra Pawar’s swearing-in ceremony 

Sunetra Pawar, the wife of deceased Ajit Pawar, modified into elected the leader of NCP Legislature Birthday party on Saturday (January 31, 2026).

Ms. Pawar’s name modified into proposed by Chhagan Bhujbal. It modified into supported by the 45 occasion leaders at the side of Dilip Walse Patil. Following this, Ms. Pawar has been appointed the neighborhood leader of the occasion. 

Later in the evening, she can possible be sworn-in as the Deputy CM of the Tell. 

– Vinaya Deshpande Pandit

Preparations below formula for the oath-taking ceremony of Sunetra Pawar.

Nationalist Congress Birthday party (SP) senior leader Jayant Patil on Saturday (January 31, 2026) claimed that senior leaders of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP at the side of Praful Patel, Sunil Tatkare and Chhagan Bhujbal knew about the merger of the two factions, announcing the merger modified into finalised in mid-January and modified into scheduled to be launched in mid-February.

In accordance with Mr. Patil, the occasion determined the merger on January 16 and deliberate to instruct the merger on February 8 after the Zilla Parishad elections scheduled on February 5. Alternatively, it modified into postponed to February 12 as Mr. Patil modified into supposed to abet a wedding in Delhi at some level of that time. 

– Snehal Mutha

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Maharashtra NCP president Sunil Tatkare has refuted media experiences that dialogue of merger of the two events had taken region at a meeting in Baramati on January 17. “I seen the video of a meeting on the present time. This modified into a tea meeting in Baramati after an exhibition there. Ajit dada had himself clarified then in a press conference that it modified into about the dialogue for local body elections,” Mr Tatkare acknowledged on Saturday (January 31, 2026).

Elaborating on the meeting to be held on the present time, he acknowledged, “A proper letter of her choice will possible be written. We are in a position to fulfill the CM with the letter. He’s going to rob a decision on it thereafter. We’re unable to digest the peril that Ajit Pawar is no more with us. His sacred ashes will possible be taken in every district.” The Legislature occasion meeting will possible be held on the Tell Legislature at 2 p.m.

– Vinaya Deshpande Pandit

NCP leaders Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare on Saturday (January 31, 2026) met Sunetra Pawar on the legitimate set aside of abode of her gradual husband Ajit Pawar here ahead of the Legislature occasion meeting.

NCP working president Patel and the occasion’s Tell chief Tatkare held parleys with Sunetra Pawar on the present political converse of affairs.

– PTI

Maharashtra Governor Acharya Devvrat will administer oath of administrative heart to Sunetra Pawar, who will possible be sworn in as the first lady Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra at 5 p.m. at Raj Bhavan on the present time (January 31, 2026), officers verify to The Hindu. 

The Governor, who modified into travelling out of Maharashtra, will attain Mumbai by 4 p.m.

-Vinaya Deshpande Pandit

Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar has reached Govindbaug in Baramati, to fulfill Sharad Pawar. Sharad Pawar had acknowledged in the morning that he modified into no longer attentive to the swearing-in ceremony, neither modified into any proposal mentioned

-Vinaya Deshpande Pandit

The Hindu’s Maharashtra Chief of Bureau, Vinaya Deshpande Pandit, explores how the unexpected loss of life of Deputy Chief Minister and NCP supreme Ajit Pawar has thrown Maharashtra’s politics in a converse of flux.

The embers of the pyre of her husband maintain barely cooled. Sunetra Pawar, who is level-headed in a converse of ache, accepting condolences from thousands of those that flock to her in Baramati, is slated to be the first lady Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Interior four days of her husband’s shapely loss of life in a plane fracture, her occasion will resolve her as the Legislature occasion leader, making her the Deputy Chief Minister of India’s 2d finest Tell.

Click on here to learn this prognosis by Vinaya Deshpande Pandit, on the fight for survival for the NCP

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