PM Modi mourns Ajit Pawar’s death, calls him ‘a leader of the people’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed deep sorrow over the death of senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar in a plane crash near Baramati on Wednesday morning.

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Prime Minister ModiHe met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis along with Union Home Minister Amit Shah to take stock of the situation following the tragic accident.

As Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning, Pawar was known for his decades-long involvement with the state’s financial management and grassroots governance.