Ajit Pawar Age, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More StarsUnfolded
1991: Elected chairman of the Pune District Co-operative Bank (PDC)- remained in the post for 16 years
1991: Elected to the Lok Sabha from the Baramati Constituency (later vacated his seat in favour of his uncle, Sharad Pawar); the same year, elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Baramati and was re-elected from the same constituency in 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014
1991-92: Minister of State for Agriculture and Power (June 1991-November 1992) in Sudhakarrao Naik's government
1992-93: Minister of state for Soil Conservation, Power and Planning (November 1992-February 1993) in Sharad Pawar's government
1999-2003: Cabinet Minister in the Irrigation Department (October 1999-December 2003) in Vilasrao Deshmukh's government
2003-04: Additional charge of the Rural Development Department (December 2003-October 2004) in Sushilkumar Shinde's government
2004: Held the Water Resources Ministry in Deshmukh's government and later in Ashok Chavan's government. He also became the Guardian Minister for Pune district in 2004 and held the post until the Congress - NCP coalition lost power in 2014
2019: Became the 9th Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra on 23 November; however, tendered his resignation on 26 November 2019
2019: On 30 December, he was sworn in as Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government; he became the Deputy Chief Minister for the fourth time.
2022: He became the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
2023: He became the Deputy Chief Minister in the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition government of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde; he became the Deputy Chief Minister for the fifth time. On 14 July 2023, he got Finance and Planning department in Maharashtra cabinet expansion.
• In September 2012, his name appeared in a multi-crore scam amounting to Rs. 70,000 Crores. These allegations were made by Vijay Pandhare, a former Maharashtra bureaucrat; following, which Ajit Pawar had to resign from the post of the Deputy CM; however, he was reinstated as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra after getting a clean chit.
• In April 2013, when Maharashtra was suffering from a drought crisis, he made a controversial statement at a function at Indapur near Pune- "If there is no water in the dam, should we urinate into it?" Later, he termed this statement as the biggest mistake of his life.
• On 16 April 2014, while campaigning for his cousin Supriya Sule, who was contesting the general election, in a village named Masalwadi in the Baramati constituency, Ajit Pawar threatened the villagers that if they did not vote for Sule, he would punish them by cutting off the water supply to the village.
• In October 2021, the Income Tax Department conducted multiple raids on businesses and properties belonging to Mr. Pawar’s relatives and aides following which the department provisionally attached assets worth Rs. 1,000 crore, including a sugar factory, a residential property in South Delhi, an office in Mumbai’s upmarket area (believed to be Nirmal Tower in Nariman Point), a resort in Goa, and land in different parts of the State, allegedly linked to Pawar. Reportedly, the department seized the properties under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988.
• In October 2023, Ajit Pawar was accused of auctioning off a 3 acres of police land in Yerawada, Pune, in 2010. The former Pune police commissioner Meeran Borwankar made these allegations in her memoir ‘Madam Commissioner: The Extraordinary Life of an Indian Police Chief.’ In the book, she did not directly name Ajit but referred to him as ‘Dada’ and ‘district minister’ as he served as the Pune District Guardian Minister in 2010. Ajit Pawar, however, later refuted these claims.
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