A video featuring the late NCP leader Ajit Pawar has gained attention after his wife, Sunetra Pawar, became Maharashtra’s first female deputy chief minister following his death in a plane crash. The clip, shared by Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, shows Ajit Pawar expressing his outrage over political opportunism soon after the death of BJP leader Girish Bapat.
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A video of late Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar criticising the rush for political succession after a death has resurfaced on social media, just a day after his wife Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as Maharashtra’s first woman deputy chief minister following his death in an air crash.
Ajit Pawar, in the video shared by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday, can be seen sharply criticising what he describes as the unseemly haste to discuss elections and political succession soon after the death of BJP leader Girish Bapat. He had expressed anger that political conversations had begun even before traditional mourning rituals were completed, and questions the urgency shown by political aspirants at a time when, he says, basic human sensitivity should have taken precedence.
“I was furious when I went to meet Girish Bapat’s family — even his ashes had not yet been immersed. I went on the third day. What is going on here? If elections don’t happen immediately, will someone die? Have some shame. Have we all forgotten humanity? If something happens in your house or mine, we stay silent for 13–14 days. If people keep quiet for even a month, what will go wrong? Again and again, there are discussions only about ambitions and people even putting up posters to become MP. What’s happening? What’s the hurry?,” he had said in Marathi in 2023.
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@PawarSpeaks pic.twitter.com/NSOWeEXbcQ— Sanjay Raut (@rautsanjay61) February 1, 2026
Girish Bapat, a five-time MLA and sitting Lok Sabha MP from Pune, died in June 2023 following prolonged illness. A prominent BJP leader, he was credited with strengthening the party’s base in Pune and had a long association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. His death triggered a bypoll in Kasba Peth assembly seat, which the BJP lost to the Congress.
The resurfacing of Ajit Pawar’s remarks comes in the wake of dramatic political developments following his death on January 28 in a plane crash in Baramati. Three days later, his wife Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as deputy chief minister in the BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP Mahayuti government.
