Maharashtra Dy CM Ajit Pawar, four others killed in plane crash in Baramati

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four other persons were killed after an aircraft carrying them crashed in Pune district on Wednesday morning officials said told PTIMaharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar 3 others on board dead after aircraft crashes in Pune district Officialmdash Press Trust of India PTI_News January 28 2026The incident occurred when the plane carrying NCP leader Pawar 66 and others was landing in Punes Baramati area they saidThe MumbaindashBaramati charter plane crashlanded at around 845 am in Baramati ANI reportedVIDEO An aircraft with Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar on board crashes in Pune district OfficialSource Third Party pictwittercom1sjBDpYRGAmdash Press Trust of India PTI_News January 28 2026No survivors says DGCAIn a statement the Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA said the aircraft was carrying Pawar along with two staff membersmdashone personal security officer PSO and one attendantmdashand two crew members including the pilotincommand PIC and first officer FO As per initial information shared by the aviation regulator no person on board survived the crashUPDATE Crash landing in Baramati Ajit Pawar Deputy CM of Maharashtra was onboard along with 2 more personnel 1 PSO and 1 attendant and 2 crew PICFO members As per initial information no person on board has survived the crash DGCA Directorate General of Civilhellip pictwittercomM8yEunTpyBmdash ANI ANI January 28 2026Emergency response teams were rushed to the site and further details regarding the cause of the accident are awaitedAjit Pawar plane crash Live updates Follow our live blog for realtime updatesAjit Pawars family rushes to BaramatiDeputy CM Pawarrsquos family rushed to the accident site Incidentally his wife and party MP Sunetra and son Parth were set to leave for Baramati from Delhi along with the leaders cousin and NCPSP working president Supriya SulePawar was headed to Baramati to attend public rallyAjit Pawar was headed to Baramati to attend a public rally for the Zilla Parishad ElectionsPawar was in Mumbai on Tuesday where he attended a meeting of the Maharashtra Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure chaired by CM Devendra Fadnavis Maharashtra Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule and concerned officials were presentAjit Pawar was the longest serving Deputy Chief MinisterAjit Pawar was the longest serving Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra nonconsecutively He served in the position for six terms within various governments He had worked as deputy chief minister in the cabinets of Prithviraj Chavan Devendra Fadnavis Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath ShindeIn 1982 Ajit Pawar began his political career after being elected to the board of a cooperative sugar factory In 1991 he was elected as the chairman of the Pune District Central Cooperative BankHe was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1991 from the Baramati Parliamentary constituency and later vacated the seat for his uncle Sharad Pawar He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly seven times from the Baramati Assembly constituency He first won in a 1991 byelection and subsequently in 1995 1999 2004 2009 and 2014In November 2019 he engineered a split in the NCP and joined a government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and became the Deputy Chief Minister In February 2024 the Election Commission awarded the party name and symbol to the faction headed by Ajit Pawar