Ajit Pawar Net Worth, Family, Wife, Children, Parents, Education, Salary, Career, Achievement (2022)

Ajit Pawar is son of Sharad Pawar’s elder brother, Anantrao Pawar. Anantrao had initially worked for renowned film maker, V.Shantaram’s “Rajkamal Studios” in Mumbai. Ajit Pawar’s grandfather, Govindrao Pawar, was employed with Baramati Co-operative trading and his grandmother looked after the family farm. Pawar was pursuing a college degree; however, due to the death of his father, he dropped out to help take care of his family. He is educated up to Secondary school level and holds the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) from the Maharashtra State Board.

Ajit Pawar was pursuing his primary education at Deolali Pravara, his uncle, Sharad Pawar was a rising political figure in the ruling Congress party. Ajit moved to then Bombay for more extensive education. Pawar made his foray into politics in 1982, when he was elected to the board of a cooperative sugar factory. He was elected as a chairman of the Pune District Co-operative Bank (PDC) in 1991 and remained in post for 16 years.

During this period he was also elected as Member of parliament, Lok Sabha from the Baramati. He later vacated his Lok Sabha seat in favour of his uncle,[clarification needed]Sharad Pawar, who was the defence minister in PV Narasimha Rao’s government at that time. After, he was elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Baramati. Pawar was re-elected from the same constituency in 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014. He went on to become minister of state for Agriculture and Power (June 1991 – November 1992) in Sudhakarrao Naik’s government.

He became minister of state for Soil Conservation, Power and Planning (November 1992 – February 1993) when Sharad Pawar returned to the state as chief minister. When the Indian National Congress-NCP coalition came into power in 1999, Pawar was promoted to cabinet minister in the Irrigation Department (October 1999 – December 2003) in Vilasrao Deshmukh’s government. He was given additional charge of the Rural Development Department (December 2003 – October 2004) in Sushilkumar Shinde’s government. When Congress-NCP combination returned to power in 2004, he retained the Water Resources Ministry in Deshmukh’s government and later in Ashok Chavan’s government.

He was the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra State from 23 to 26 November 2019 for less than 80 hours. Thus, he became Deputy CM with the shortest tenure in Devendra Fadnavis led government. On 1 December 2019, it was announced that Pawar would take over as Deputy Chief Minister after the commencement of the winter session of the state legislature on 16 December.

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