Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar has been appointed the national president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), replacing his late husband Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane accident in Baramati on January 28.

The decision was taken at a party meeting held at Worli Dome in Mumbai on Thursday. Senior party leader Praful Patel proposed Sunetra’s name for the post, a move which was seconded by state NCP president Sunil Tatkare. She was elected unanimously and unopposed as the new national president of the party.