Supriya Sule Devastated by Cousin Ajit Pawar’s Tragic Plane Crash Death
Supriya Sule expresses heartbreak over Ajit Pawar’s death in Baramati air crash.
In a deeply emotional response to the sudden loss of her cousin Ajit Pawar, NCP-SP leader Supriya Sule shared a single-word WhatsApp status: “Devastated.” The message came shortly after news broke of the fatal plane crash in Baramati on January 28, 2026, where Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and five others perished when their chartered aircraft crash-landed and burst into flames. Sule, currently en route to Baramati along with Praful Patel, Sunetra Pawar, and Parth Pawar, posted the status as family members rushed to the site of the tragedy.
Ajit Pawar, 66, was flying from Mumbai to his political stronghold Baramati—Sule’s own Lok Sabha constituency—to campaign for the upcoming February 5 zilla parishad elections. The crash occurred around 8:50 am, claiming all lives on board and sending shockwaves through Maharashtra’s political circles. Despite the public political rift in 2023, when Ajit Pawar split from uncle Sharad Pawar’s NCP faction to join the BJP-led government, Sule had consistently maintained that family ties remained intact and any differences were purely ideological.
In earlier statements, Sule emphasized there were “no personal issues” within the Pawar family. She described the 2023 split as ideological rather than personal and reiterated recently, ahead of municipal polls in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, that the family had never faced internal discord. The Pawars have long dominated Maharashtra’s cooperative movement, rural politics, and power dynamics, with Ajit known for bold alliances and Sule emerging as a measured, national face of the party.
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The Pawar family, once united under Sharad Pawar’s leadership, saw fractures over succession and strategy, yet moments like joint contesting in recent local elections showed lingering cooperation. Sule’s poignant status reflects the personal grief beneath the political headlines, as tributes continue to pour in for Ajit Pawar, remembered as “Dada” for his grassroots influence and pragmatic governance style.
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