NCP leader Ajit Pawar joined the Eknath Shinde-led government as Deputy Chief Minister after splitting the party.While Pawar was sworn in as the deputy chief minister by Governor Ramesh Bais at a ceremony held in the Raj Bhavan, eight other NCP leaders took oath as ministers in the government which has the Shiv Sena and the BJP in alliance.
Mumbai: After a brief stint as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister in 2019 under a BJP government, NCP leader Ajit Pawar is back to the post by splitting the.
Pawar, who was also the deputy CM in the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, which was in power from November 2019 to June 2022, enjoys the image of a grassroot leader and an able administrator.
Pawar was also the deputy CM in the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. In November 2019, Ajit Pawar were sworn in as the deputy CM for the shortest term as the government led by BJP s Devendra Fadnavis.