The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday formally elected Maharashtra Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar as its national president, sources said.
The development comes in nearly a month after the death of her husband, Ajit Pawar, who held the position earlier.
According to sources, Sunetra Pawar was unanimously elected as the national president of the NCP at the party’s executive body meeting held at Worli Dome on Thursday evening.
The announcement was made after party leaders proposed her name during the meeting, which was attended by senior office-bearers and representatives from various states.
Earlier this month had assumed charge of the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, days after Ajit Pawar`s death in a plane crash near Baramati on January 28.
Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as Maharashtra’s first woman deputy CM on January 31.
In the recent cabinet allocation, she was assigned the state excise, sports, and minority development portfolios. She has also been appointed Guardian Minister for Pune and Beed districts.
