Late Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash in Baramati on Wednesday, January 28, was known for his brutally honest comments, irrespective of what the situation may have been. Here are six cases where he put that into practice.
Inclination for perfection
Ajit Pawar’s obsession with cleanliness He was known by everyone in the party and his family. At home he never liked things out of place. And those who witnessed this remember how he himself carefully got rid of used paper or perfectly rearranged a vase on a table. A few years ago, the acting president of the PCN (SP) Supriya Sule He saw Ajit walking towards the NCP headquarters with a limp. When she asked, she noticed that as she walked, she stretched out her leg to push back some of the flower pots that were not in a row. Anything out of place was never out of sight. At Pawar’s Vidhya Pratishthan in Baramati, if he ever saw a wrapper or paper lying on the road, he would pick it up, leaving students on campus embarrassed.
Like clockwork
Known for his punctuality, Ajit used to express his disappointment if anyone was late, including bureaucrats. He also didn’t like people barging into his cabin without an appointment. He once told senior journalists that it was unfair to other people who traveled from distant places to do a specific job. “I don’t like making people wait,” he said.
Going the extra mile
In 2022, when Ajit Pawar became the leader of the opposition. In the state legislative assembly, BJP-Shiv Sena ministers would expect him to never ask questions. No matter what department it was, Ajit Pawar always ended up giving more information and solutions to the issues raised in the assembly. Unlike other LoPs, he played a constructive role in the Lower House.
Raised among the elites
Trained under Sharad Pawar, Ajit had been absorbed in politics since his high school days. He had once revealed that in the old days, when his uncle was already well established in politics, Ajit Pawar used to walk around with tea trays, serving who’s who at home. “In the old days it was not unusual for us to serve guests. It was not left to the servants,” he said.
early start
On another occasion, he had described how some of hisHis rural friends and campaigned for Sharad Pawar. in Baramati. “We took the job so seriously that my uncle won by a much larger margin,” he revealed proudly.
brutally honest
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Although aggressive, Ajit never projected himself as a Maratha leader as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. Eknath Shinde. At the height of the Maratha agitation, he had once admonished a group of well-to-do young Turks saying, “You are demanding reservation on the basis of economically backward caste. That is fine. But shouldn’t you be careful when you squander thousands of rupees on marriage? Sometimes you force your family to sell agricultural land to show your power during marriage. When will I think about these issues?”