The deputy chief minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar and five others travelling with him died in a plane crash at Baramati in Maharashtra. This tragedy claiming six lives including that of the Maharshtra deputy CM has sent shock waves all around. The prime minister Narendra Modi and union Home minister Amit Shah immediately spoke to the Maharashtra CM Fadnavis and enquired about the tragedy. The wife of the deceased deputy CM Sunetra Pawar and the cousin sister Supriya Sule, MP reached the accidental spot and the hospital immediately.
The wife of the dead deputy CM said that her son Yogendra who is in hospital has informed that no one among the six travelling in the aircraft have survived. The deputy CM Ajit Pawar alongwith his sides were heading for Baramati to address the Zilla Parishad polls in a Learjet 45 chartered by them from Mumbai which unfortunately which crashed st the time of the landing pricing extremely fatal for all the success passengers including the deputy CM. Baramati parliamentary constituency was represented by Ajit Pawar in 1991 and have been thereafter MLA for seven consecutive terms before and after 1991.
It may be recalled that several political leaders like former union civil aviation minister Madhav Rao Scindia , Rajesh Pilot and now Ajit Pawar among several others are the victim of the chopper of aircraft crashes going to different locations within the country related to political affairs or department related duties.
The chopper of the chief of the defence staff General Vipin Rawat had also crashed few years back in which he alongwith his wife and pilots etc were killed. The Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi was tragically killed alongwith another pilot Mr. Saxena while taking acrobatics of his two seater plane at Safdarjung airport in the year 1980 on 23 rd June.
