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id="toc-1978-1987" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1978-1987"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>1978-1987</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1978-1987-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1987–1990" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1987–1990"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>1987–1990</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1987–1990-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Early_1990s" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Early_1990s"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Early 1990s</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Early_1990s-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mid-to-late_1990s" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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id="toc-Career_since_2014-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2023_Ajit_Pawar's_rebellion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2023_Ajit_Pawar's_rebellion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.10</span> <span>2023 Ajit Pawar's rebellion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2023_Ajit_Pawar's_rebellion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Member_of_coordination_committee_of_Indian_National_Developmental_Inclusive_Alliance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Member_of_coordination_committee_of_Indian_National_Developmental_Inclusive_Alliance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Member of coordination committee of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance</span> </div> </a> <ul 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honours</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards_and_honours-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharad_Pawar" title="Sharad Pawar – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sharad Pawar" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0" title="शरद पवार – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="शरद पवार" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharad_Pawar" title="Sharad Pawar – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sharad Pawar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A8" title="שארד פאוור – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שארד פאוור" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B6%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A6%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D" title="ಶರದ್ ಪವಾರ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಶರದ್ ಪವಾರ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC" title="ശരദ് പവാർ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ശരദ് പവാർ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0" title="शरद पवार – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="शरद पवार" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A6_%E0%A8%AA%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0" title="ਸ਼ਰਦ ਪਵਾਰ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਸ਼ਰਦ ਪਵਾਰ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a 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style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Rajya_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha">Member of Parliament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />3 April 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Y._P._Trivedi" title="Y. P. Trivedi">Y. P. Trivedi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Maharashtra" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party_(Sharadchandra_Pawar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)">President of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />8 February 2024</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>office established</i></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">9th <a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">President of the <br /> International Cricket Council (ICC)</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2010–2012</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Morgan_(cricket_administrator)" title="David Morgan (cricket administrator)">David Morgan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Isaac" title="Alan Isaac">Alan Isaac</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">28th <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Agriculture_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Agriculture (India)">Union Minister of Agriculture</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />23 May 2004 – 26 May 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rajnath_Singh" title="Rajnath Singh">Rajnath Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Radha_Mohan_Singh" title="Radha Mohan Singh">Radha Mohan Singh</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">9th <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Consumer_Affairs,_Food_and_Public_Distribution_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India)">Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 May 2004 – 19 January 2011</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sharad_Yadav" title="Sharad Yadav">Sharad Yadav</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/K._V._Thomas" title="K. V. Thomas">K. V. Thomas</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">9th <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_in_Lok_Sabha" title="Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha">Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />19 March 1998 – 26 April 1999</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Lok_Sabha" title="Speaker of the Lok Sabha">Speaker</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/G._M._C._Balayogi" title="G. M. C. Balayogi">G. M. C. Balayogi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sonia_Gandhi" title="Sonia Gandhi">Sonia Gandhi</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">15th <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(India)" title="Ministry of Defence (India)">Union Minister of Defence</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1991–1993</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/P._V._Narasimha_Rao" title="P. V. Narasimha Rao">P. V. Narasimha Rao</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chandra_Shekhar" title="Chandra Shekhar">Chandra Shekhar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/P._V._Narasimha_Rao" title="P. V. Narasimha Rao">P. V. Narasimha Rao</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2009–2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>constituency established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vijaysinh_Mohite%E2%80%93Patil" title="Vijaysinh Mohite–Patil">Vijaysinh Mohite–Patil</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Madha_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Madha (Lok Sabha constituency)">Madha, Maharashtra</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1996–2009</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Bapusaheb Thite</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Supriya_Sule" title="Supriya Sule">Supriya Sule</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Baramati_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baramati (Lok Sabha constituency)">Baramati, Maharashtra</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1991–1993</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ajit_Pawar" title="Ajit Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Bapusaheb Thite</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Baramati_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baramati (Lok Sabha constituency)">Baramati, Maharashtra</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1984–1985</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shankarrao_Bajirao_Patil" title="Shankarrao Bajirao Patil">Shankarrao Bajirao Patil</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sambhajirao_Kakade" title="Sambhajirao Kakade">Sambhajirao Kakade</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Baramati_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baramati (Lok Sabha constituency)">Baramati, Maharashtra</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">6th <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Maharashtra">Chief Minister of Maharashtra</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />6 March 1993 – 14 March 1995</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sudhakarrao_Naik" title="Sudhakarrao Naik">Sudhakarrao Naik</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manohar_Joshi" title="Manohar Joshi">Manohar Joshi</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />26 June 1988 – 25 June 1991</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shankarrao_Chavan" title="Shankarrao Chavan">Shankarrao Chavan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sudhakarrao_Naik" title="Sudhakarrao Naik">Sudhakarrao Naik</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />18 July 1978 – 17 February 1980</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vasantdada_Patil" title="Vasantdada Patil">Vasantdada Patil</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/President%27s_rule" title="President's rule">President's rule</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_(India)" title="Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)">Member</a> of <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra_Legislative_Assembly" title="Maharashtra Legislative Assembly">Maharashtra Legislative Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1967–1991</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Malatibai Madhavrao Shirole</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ajit_Pawar" title="Ajit Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Baramati_Assembly_constituency" title="Baramati Assembly constituency">Baramati</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1940-12-12</span>) </span>12 December 1940<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 83)</span><sup id="cite_ref-LSMPBio_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSMPBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Baramati" title="Baramati">Baramati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bombay_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombay Province">Bombay Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a><sup id="cite_ref-LSMPBio_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSMPBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />(present-day <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>, India)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party_(Sharadchandra_Pawar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)">Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2024–present)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1958–1999)</span><br /> <a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party" title="Nationalist Congress Party">Nationalist Congress Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1999–2024)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Pratibha Pawar</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1967)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ajit_Pawar" title="Ajit Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a> (nephew)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Rohit_Rajendra_Pawar" title="Rohit Rajendra Pawar">Rohit Rajendra Pawar</a> (grand-nephew)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Supriya_Sule" title="Supriya Sule">Supriya Sule</a> (daughter)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Breach_Candy" title="Breach Candy">45, Bhulabhai Desai Marg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mumbai" title="Mumbai">Mumbai</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">Politician</a></li><li>cricket administrator</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sharadpawar.com">sharadpawar<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div>As of 29 October, 2010</div>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040905133307/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=327">[5]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar</b> (Marathi pronunciation: <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Marathi" title="Help:IPA/Marathi">[ʃəɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ]</a>, born in 12 December 1940)<sup id="cite_ref-LSMPBio_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSMPBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is an Indian politician. He has served as the <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Maharashtra">Chief Minister of Maharashtra</a> for four terms and has also served in the <a href="/wiki/Union_Council_of_Ministers" title="Union Council of Ministers">Union Council of Ministers</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(India)" title="Minister of Defence (India)">Minister of Defence</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Rao_ministry" title="Rao ministry">Cabinet of P.V. Narsimha Rao</a> and as <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Agriculture_and_Farmers%27_Welfare" title="Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare">Minister of Agriculture</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh_ministry_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Manmohan Singh ministry (disambiguation)">Cabinet of Manmohan Singh</a>. He is the first and former president of the <a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party" title="Nationalist Congress Party">Nationalist Congress Party</a> (NCP), "which he founded in 1999, after separating from the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress"</a>. His faction of the NCP was split by his nephew, Ajit Pawar. He leads his faction of the NCP in the <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a>, the upper chamber of the Indian parliament. He is the chairperson of <a href="/wiki/Maha_Vikas_Aghadi" title="Maha Vikas Aghadi">Maha Vikas Aghadi</a>, a regional <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>-based political alliance. </p><p>Pawar comes from <a href="/wiki/Baramati" title="Baramati">Baramati</a> of <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>. He is the patriarch of the influential <a href="/wiki/Political_family" title="Political family">political family</a>—the <a href="/wiki/Political_families_of_Maharashtra" title="Political families of Maharashtra">Pawar Family</a>—and a prominent face in Maharashtra politics. Other politicians from the family include his daughter <a href="/wiki/Supriya_Sule" title="Supriya Sule">Supriya Sule</a>, his nephew <a href="/wiki/Ajit_Pawar" title="Ajit Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a> , his nephew's son <a href="/wiki/Rohit_Rajendra_Pawar" title="Rohit Rajendra Pawar">Rohit Rajendra Pawar</a> and other members of his extended family.<sup id="cite_ref-Aron2016_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aron2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Outside of politics, Pawar has served as the President of the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Control_for_Cricket_in_India" title="Board of Control for Cricket in India">Board of Control for Cricket in India</a> (BCCI) from 2005 to 2008 and as the president of the <a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">International Cricket Council</a> (ICC) from 2010 to 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the president of the <a href="/wiki/Mumbai_Cricket_Association" title="Mumbai Cricket Association">Mumbai Cricket Association</a> from October 2013 to January 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, the Indian government conferred upon him <a href="/wiki/Padma_Vibhushan" title="Padma Vibhushan">Padma Vibhushan</a>, the second-highest civilian honour of India. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_family">Personal life and family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Personal life and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pawar is one of eleven children born to Govindrao Pawar and Shardabai Pawar.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Govindrao's ancestors had moved to Baramati from the nearby <a href="/wiki/Satara_district" title="Satara district">Satara</a>. Govindrao had a prolonged career in <i>Sahakari Kharedi Vikri Sangh</i>, a <a href="/wiki/Baramati" title="Baramati">Baramati</a> <a href="/wiki/Agricultural_cooperative" title="Agricultural cooperative">Farmers' Cooperative</a>. He also managed <i>Shahu boarding</i>, a students' hostel, in the 1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-AttwoodAttwood2019_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AttwoodAttwood2019-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1950s he was an instrumental in setting up <a href="/wiki/Cooperative_sugar_factories_in_Maharashtra" title="Cooperative sugar factories in Maharashtra">cooperative sugar mills</a> in the Baramati region. Shardabai Pawar was elected to the district local board three times between 1937 and 1952.<sup id="cite_ref-Phadnis2009_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Phadnis2009-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She looked after the family farm at Katewadi, ten kilometres from Baramati.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Pawar studied till 10th SSC (Maharashtra Board )from Maharashtra Education Society's High School Baramati.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Vasantrao, the eldest brother of Pawar and a lawyer, was murdered over a land deal by a man who was suspected to be a hired assassin. <a href="/wiki/Pratap_Govindrao_Pawar" title="Pratap Govindrao Pawar">Pratap Pawar</a>, Pawar's younger brother, runs the <a href="/wiki/Marathi_language" title="Marathi language">Marathi</a> daily newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Sakal" title="Sakal">Sakal</a></i>. One of Pawar's nephews, <a href="/wiki/Ajit_Pawar" title="Ajit Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a>, is a politician and currently serves as one of the two <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Chief_Minister_of_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra">Deputy Chief Ministers of Maharashtra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BakshiSharma1998_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BakshiSharma1998-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His grandnephew <a href="/wiki/Rohit_Rajendra_Pawar" title="Rohit Rajendra Pawar">Rohit Rajendra Pawar</a> represents the Karjat constituency in the <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra_Legislative_Assembly" title="Maharashtra Legislative Assembly">Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pawar is married to Pratibha (<a href="/wiki/N%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Née">née</a> Shinde), daughter of the test cricketer <a href="/wiki/Sadashiv_Shinde" title="Sadashiv Shinde">Sadashiv Shinde</a>. They have a daughter, <a href="/wiki/Supriya_Sule" title="Supriya Sule">Supriya Sule</a>, who represents the <a href="/wiki/Baramati" title="Baramati">Baramati</a> constituency in the <a href="/wiki/17th_Lok_Sabha" title="17th Lok Sabha">17th Lok Sabha</a>. </p><p>He is the oldest and senior most member of Pawar political dynastic family of Maharashtra. The family have 2 Members of Parliament and 2 Members of Legislative Assembly in the state assembly. Among them, Ajit Pawar was the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1999, Pawar was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Oral_cancer" title="Oral cancer">oral cancer</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and had <a href="/wiki/Oral_surgery" class="mw-redirect" title="Oral surgery">oral surgery</a> in April 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2021, he underwent surgery for his <a href="/wiki/Gallbladder" title="Gallbladder">gallbladder</a> problem.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pawar's first political activity was when he was a school-going student. He organized a protest march for <a href="/wiki/Goa_liberation_movement" title="Goa liberation movement">Goan Independence</a> in <i>Pravaranagar</i> in 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-BakshiSharma1998_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BakshiSharma1998-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At college, he was active in student politics. Although his older lawyer brother belonged to <a href="/wiki/Peasants_and_Workers_Party_of_India" title="Peasants and Workers Party of India">Peasants and Workers Party</a>, the young Pawar preferred the Congress party and joined <a href="/wiki/Indian_Youth_Congress" title="Indian Youth Congress">Youth Congress</a> in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-BakshiSharma1998_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BakshiSharma1998-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later became the president of <i>Poona</i> district (now Pune district) youth Congress in 1962. By 1964, he was one of the two secretaries of Maharashtra youth congress and in regular contact with influential leaders of the party.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1967–1978"><span id="1967.E2.80.931978"></span>1967–1978</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1967–1978"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early in his career, Pawar was regarded as a protégé of <a href="/wiki/Yashwantrao_Chavan" title="Yashwantrao Chavan">Yashwantrao Chavan</a>, a highly influential politician from Maharashtra at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Godbole1996_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Godbole1996-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the young age of 27 in 1967, Pawar was nominated as the candidate for the <a href="/wiki/Baramati_Assembly_constituency" title="Baramati Assembly constituency">Baramati</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra_Legislative_Assembly" title="Maharashtra Legislative Assembly">Maharashtra Legislative Assembly</a> over more established members by the undivided <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress Party</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He won the election and represented the constituency from 1967 to 1990. In 1969, when the Congress party split after the <a href="/wiki/1969_Indian_presidential_election" title="1969 Indian presidential election">1969 Indian presidential election</a> he opted for the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress_(R)" title="Indian National Congress (R)">Congress(R)</a> faction of prime minister <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi" title="Indira Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</a> along with his mentor Yashwantrao Chavan. As the MLA of <a href="/wiki/Baramati_Assembly_constituency" title="Baramati Assembly constituency">Baramati</a> in the early 1970s, he was instrumental in building <a href="/wiki/Irrigation_tank" title="Irrigation tank">percolation tanks</a> during a <a href="/wiki/Famine_in_India#1972_Maharashtra_drought" title="Famine in India">severe drought in Maharashtra</a>. Like most Congress party politicians from rural western Maharashtra, he was also heavily involved in the politics of the local <a href="/wiki/Cooperative_sugar_factories_in_Maharashtra" title="Cooperative sugar factories in Maharashtra">cooperative sugar mills</a> and other member run <a href="/wiki/Cooperative_movement_in_India" title="Cooperative movement in India">cooperatives societies</a>. In the early 1970s, the then chief minister <a href="/wiki/Vasantrao_Naik" title="Vasantrao Naik">Vasantrao Naik</a> had been power for a long time and there was jockeying for succession among different factions of the state Congress party. At that time, looking to the future leadership of the party, <a href="/wiki/Yashwantrao_Chavan" title="Yashwantrao Chavan">Yashwantrao Chavan</a> persuaded Naik to bring Pawar into his cabinet as state home affairs minister.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (January 2022)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lele1981_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lele1981-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar continued as home affairs minister in the 1975-77 government of <a href="/wiki/Shankarrao_Chavan" title="Shankarrao Chavan">Shankarrao Chavan</a>, who succeeded Naik as the chief minister.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1978-1987">1978-1987</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1978-1987"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sharad_Pawar_ministry_(1978-1980)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharad Pawar ministry (1978-1980)">Sharad Pawar ministry (1978-1980)</a></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/1977_Indian_general_election" title="1977 Indian general election">1977 Lok Sabha elections</a>, Congress party, under <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi" title="Indira Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</a>, lost power to the <a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">Janata Alliance</a>. Taking responsibility for the loss of large number of seats in Maharashtra, chief minister <a href="/wiki/Shankarrao_Chavan" title="Shankarrao Chavan">Shankarrao Chavan</a> resigned shortly afterwards and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Vasantdada_Patil" title="Vasantdada Patil">Vasantdada Patil</a>. Later in the year, the Congress party split, with Pawar's mentor, Yashwantrao Chavan joining one faction, <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress_(U)" title="Indian National Congress (U)">Congress (U)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi" title="Indira Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</a> leading her own faction, <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress (I)</a>. Pawar himself joined Congress (U). In the <a href="/wiki/1978_Maharashtra_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election">state assembly elections held early in 1978</a>, the two Congress parties ran separately but then formed an alliance to keep power under Vasantdada Patil and deny it to <a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">Janata Party</a> which emerged as the biggest single party after the election, but without a majority. Pawar served as Minister of Industry and Labour in the Patil government.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 1978, Pawar broke away from the Congress (U) party to form a coalition government with the Janata Party. In the process, at the age of 38, he became the youngest <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Maharashtra">Chief Minister of Maharashtra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This <a href="/wiki/First_Pawar_ministry" title="First Pawar ministry">Progressive Democratic Front</a> (PDF) government was dismissed in February 1980, following <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi" title="Indira Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</a>'s return to power. </p><p>In the 1980 elections <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress#Indira_era_(1966–1984)" title="Indian National Congress">Congress (I)</a> won the majority in the state assembly, and <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rehman_Antulay" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rehman Antulay">A.R. Antulay</a> took over as chief minister. Pawar took over the Presidency of his <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress_(Socialist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian National Congress (Socialist)">Indian National Congress (Socialist)</a> <i>Congress (S)</i> party in 1983. For the first time, he won the <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> election from the <a href="/wiki/Baramati" title="Baramati">Baramati</a> parliamentary constituency in 1984. He also won the state assembly election of March 1985 from Baramati and preferred to return to state politics, and resigned his Lok Sabha seat. <i>Congress (S),</i> won 54 seats out of 288 in the state assembly, and Pawar became the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_opposition" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the opposition">leader of the opposition</a> of PDF<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="What is PDF ? Provide full form of this name. (January 2022)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> coalition which included the <a href="/wiki/BJP" class="mw-redirect" title="BJP">BJP</a>, PWP, and the Janata party.<sup id="cite_ref-unipune.ac.in_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unipune.ac.in-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1987–1990"><span id="1987.E2.80.931990"></span>1987–1990</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1987–1990"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His return to Congress (I) in 1987 has been cited as a reason for the rise of the <a href="/wiki/Shiv_Sena_(1966%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiv Sena (1966–2022)">Shiv Sena</a> at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-unipune.ac.in_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unipune.ac.in-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar had stated at the time, "the need to save the Congress Culture in Maharashtra", as his reason for returning to Congress. In June 1988, <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India">Prime Minister of India</a> and Congress President <a href="/wiki/Rajiv_Gandhi" title="Rajiv Gandhi">Rajiv Gandhi</a> decided to induct then Maharashtra Chief Minister <a href="/wiki/Shankarrao_Chavan" title="Shankarrao Chavan">Shankarrao Chavan</a> into his Union Cabinet as Finance Minister and Pawar was chosen to replace Chavan as the chief minister. Pawar had the task of checking the rise of the <a href="/wiki/Shiv_Sena_(1966%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiv Sena (1966–2022)">Shiv Sena</a> in state politics, which was a potential challenge to the dominance of Congress in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1989 Lok Sabha elections, Congress won 28 seats out of 48 in Maharashtra. In the state assembly elections of February 1990, the alliance between the <a href="/wiki/Shiv_Sena_(1966%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiv Sena (1966–2022)">Shiv Sena</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> posed a stiff challenge to Congress. Congress fell short of an absolute majority in the state assembly, winning 141 seats out of 288. Pawar was sworn in as chief minister again on 4 March 1990 with the support of 12 independent or unaffiliated members of the legislative assembly (MLAs).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_1990s">Early 1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Early 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the course of the 1991 election campaign, former <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Rajiv_Gandhi" title="Rajiv Gandhi">Rajiv Gandhi</a> was <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Rajiv_Gandhi" title="Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi">assassinated</a>. The party elected <a href="/wiki/P.V._Narasimha_Rao" class="mw-redirect" title="P.V. Narasimha Rao">P.V. Narasimha Rao</a> as the party president. It was expected that the party president would become the prime minister in the event of a Congress victory.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Pawar at that time had talked about the distinction between party president and prime minister. Also since the Congress contingent from Maharashtra was the largest, Pawar felt he had a legitimate claim for the post of prime minister. However, Pawar eventually decided not to enter the contest, and the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress#Structure_and_composition" title="Indian National Congress">Congress Parliamentary Party</a> (party MPs) unanimously elected P.V. Narasimha Rao as their leader, and he was sworn in as prime minister on 21 June 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-Sitapati2018_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sitapati2018-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rao named Pawar as <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(India)" title="Ministry of Defence (India)">defence minister</a>. On 26 June 1991, Pawar took over that portfolio, and held it until March 1993. After Pawar's successor in Maharashtra, <a href="/wiki/Sudhakarrao_Naik" title="Sudhakarrao Naik">Sudhakarrao Naik</a>, stepped down after the disastrous handling of the <a href="/wiki/Bombay_riots" title="Bombay riots">Bombay riots</a>, Rao asked Pawar to serve again as chief minister of the state. Pawar was sworn in as chief minister for his fourth term on 6 March 1993. Almost immediately, Mumbai experienced a series of <a href="/wiki/1993_Bombay_bombings" title="1993 Bombay bombings">bomb blasts</a>, on 12 March 1993. Pawar's response to the blasts attracted controversy. More than a decade later, Pawar admitted that he had "deliberately misled" people following the bombings, by saying that there were "13 and not 12" explosions, and had added the name of a Muslim-dominated locality to show that people from both communities had been affected.<sup id="cite_ref-Pawar_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pawar-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attempted to justify this deception by claiming that it was a move to prevent communal riots, by falsely portraying that both Hindu and Muslim communities in the city had been affected adversely. He also admitted to lying about evidence recovered and misleading people into believing that it pointed to the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Tigers" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil Tigers">Tamil Tigers</a> as possible suspects.<sup id="cite_ref-Pawar_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pawar-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mid-to-late_1990s">Mid-to-late 1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Mid-to-late 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1993, the Deputy Commissioner of the <a href="/wiki/Brihanmumbai_Municipal_Corporation" title="Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation">Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation</a>, <a href="/wiki/G._R._Khairnar" title="G. R. Khairnar">G. R. Khairnar</a> made a series of accusations against Pawar for being involved in corruption and protecting criminals.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though Khairnar could not produce any evidence in support of his claims, it inevitably affected Pawar's popularity. Notable social worker <a href="/wiki/Anna_Hazare" title="Anna Hazare">Anna Hazare</a> started a fast-unto-death to demand the expulsion of 12 officers of the Maharashtra state forest department who had been accused of corruption. The opposition parties accused Pawar's government of trying to shield the corrupt officers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1994_Gowari_stampede" title="1994 Gowari stampede">1994 Gowari stampede</a> occurred at <a href="/wiki/Nagpur" title="Nagpur">Nagpur</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Winter_Session_of_Maharashtra_State_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Winter Session of Maharashtra State Assembly">winter session</a> of the state assembly, and killed 114 people. <a href="/wiki/Nagpur_Police" title="Nagpur Police">Nagpur Police</a> were trying to disperse almost 50,000 <a href="/wiki/Gowari" title="Gowari">Gowari</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vanjari_(caste)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanjari (caste)">Vanjari</a> protesters using <a href="/wiki/Baton_charge" title="Baton charge">baton charges</a> but the police created panic and triggered a stampede amongst protesters.<sup id="cite_ref-TIE19981231_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TIE19981231-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Allegations were made that the mishap occurred because welfare minister Madhukarrao Pichad did not meet with the delegation of the Vanjari people in time. Though Pichad, accepting moral responsibility for the mishap, stepped down, this incident was another setback to Pawar's government.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After 16 years of protest by the <a href="/wiki/Namantar_Andolan" title="Namantar Andolan">Namantar Andolan</a> (Name-change Movement), the state government finally renamed <a href="/wiki/Marathwada_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Marathwada University">Marathwada University</a> as <a href="/wiki/Dr._Babasaheb_Ambedkar_Marathwada_University" title="Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University">Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University</a> on 14 January 1994, the compromise new name being an expansion of the old name (<i>Namvistar</i>) rather than a complete change of name (<i>Namanatar</i>). As chief minister, Pawar announced few developments in university departments.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>New elections to the <a href="/wiki/Vidhan_Sabha" class="mw-redirect" title="Vidhan Sabha">Vidhan Sabha</a> were held in 1995. The <a href="/wiki/Shiv_Sena_(1966%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiv Sena (1966–2022)">Shiv Sena</a>-<a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> coalition was leading Congress in the polls, and there was widespread rebellion in the Congress party.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Shiv Sena-BJP won 138 seats while Congress retained only 80 seats in the state assembly. Pawar had to step down and Shiv Sena leader <a href="/wiki/Manohar_Joshi" title="Manohar Joshi">Manohar Joshi</a> took over as chief minister on 14 March 1995. Until the Lok Sabha elections of 1996, Pawar served as the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_(parliamentary)" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition (parliamentary)">Leader of the Opposition</a> in the state assembly. In the 1996 <a href="/wiki/General_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="General elections">General elections</a>, Pawar won the Baramati seat in the Lok Sabha and left the state assembly.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In June 1997, Pawar unsuccessfully challenged <a href="/wiki/Sitaram_Kesri" title="Sitaram Kesri">Sitaram Kesri</a> for the post of <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Indian_National_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="President of the Indian National Congress">President of the Indian National Congress</a>. In the mid-term parliamentary elections of 1998, Pawar not only won his constituency, Baramati, but also led Congress to a win by a large majority<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="vague (January 2016)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> of Maharashtra Lok Sabha constituencies. Congress was aligned with the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_India_(Athvale)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party of India (Athvale)">Republican Party of India (Athvale)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samajwadi_Party" title="Samajwadi Party">Samajwadi Party</a> for the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra. The Congress party won 33 Lok Sabha seats outright, and the allied Republican Party of India won 4 more, for a total of 37 out of 48 in the state. Pawar served as Leader of Opposition in the 12th Lok Sabha.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation_of_Nationalist_Congress_Party">Formation of Nationalist Congress Party</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Formation of Nationalist Congress Party"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1999, after the 12th Lok Sabha was dissolved and elections to the 13th Lok Sabha were called, Pawar, <a href="/wiki/P._A._Sangma" title="P. A. Sangma">P. A. Sangma</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tariq_Anwar_(politician)" title="Tariq Anwar (politician)">Tariq Anwar</a> demanded that the party needed to propose someone native-born as the prime ministerial candidate and not the Italian-born <a href="/wiki/Sonia_Gandhi" title="Sonia Gandhi">Sonia Gandhi</a>, who had entered party politics and replaced Kesri as Congress president. In response, the <a href="/wiki/Congress_Working_Committee" title="Congress Working Committee">Congress working committee</a> (CWC) expelled the trio for six years from the party.<sup id="cite_ref-Kidwai2011_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kidwai2011-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response Pawar and Sangma founded the <a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party" title="Nationalist Congress Party">Nationalist Congress Party</a> in June 1999. Despite the falling out, the new party aligned with the Congress party to form a coalition government in Maharashtra after the <a href="/wiki/1999_Maharashtra_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1999 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election">1999 state assembly elections</a> to prevent the Shiv Sena-BJP combine from returning to power.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar, however, did not return to state politics and <a href="/wiki/Vilasrao_Deshmukh" title="Vilasrao Deshmukh">Vilasrao Deshmukh</a> of Congress was chosen as chief minister, with <a href="/wiki/Chagan_Bhujbal" class="mw-redirect" title="Chagan Bhujbal">Chagan Bhujbal</a> representing the <a href="/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party" title="Nationalist Congress Party">NCP</a> as deputy chief minister. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minister_of_agriculture_in_UPA_government">Minister of agriculture in UPA government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Minister of agriculture in UPA government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shri_Sharad_Pawar_assumes_the_charge_of_Union_Minister_for_Agriculture,_Food_%26_Civil_Supplies,_Consumer_Affairs_and_Public_Distribution_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24,_2004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Shri_Sharad_Pawar_assumes_the_charge_of_Union_Minister_for_Agriculture%2C_Food_%26_Civil_Supplies%2C_Consumer_Affairs_and_Public_Distribution_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Shri_Sharad_Pawar_assumes_the_charge_of_Union_Minister_for_Agriculture%2C_Food_%26_Civil_Supplies%2C_Consumer_Affairs_and_Public_Distribution_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Shri_Sharad_Pawar_assumes_the_charge_of_Union_Minister_for_Agriculture%2C_Food_%26_Civil_Supplies%2C_Consumer_Affairs_and_Public_Distribution_in_New_Delhi_on_May_24%2C_2004.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="591" /></a><figcaption>Pawar assumes the charge of Union Minister for Agriculture, Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution in New Delhi on 24 May 2004</figcaption></figure> <p>After the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Pawar joined the <a href="/wiki/United_Progressive_Alliance" title="United Progressive Alliance">United Progressive Alliance</a> (UPA) government headed by Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Agriculture_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Agriculture (India)">Minister of Agriculture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Baru2015_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baru2015-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He retained his portfolio when the UPA coalition government was reelected in 2009. He faced several crises and controversies during his tenure as Agriculture minister. Critics also point out that during his tenure as the minister agriculture, he spent time on cricket in his role as the president of BCCI than on his ministerial duties.<sup id="cite_ref-Phadnis2009_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Phadnis2009-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wheat_imports">Wheat imports</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Wheat imports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2007, the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> asked for Pawar's resignation after alleging he was involved in a multi-crore Indian rupee (INR) scam involving wheat imports. In May 2007, a tender floated by the <a href="/wiki/Food_Corporation_of_India" title="Food Corporation of India">Food Corporation of India</a> (FCI) for procurement of wheat was cancelled when the lowest bid received was for US$263/ton. The government subsequently allowed private traders to purchase wheat directly from farmers that year resulting in a paucity of wheat to stock FCI granaries. By July 2007 the shortage at FCI was large enough to require import of wheat at a much higher price of 320–360 USD/ton. Taking advantage of this, traders who had domestically purchased wheat at 900 INR/ton earlier, were now offering the same to FCI at 1,300 INR/ton.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Agricultural_produce_prices">Agricultural produce prices</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Agricultural produce prices"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As the Minister of Agriculture, Pawar was consistently accused of colluding in the extreme hike in prices of agricultural produce: </p> <ul><li><b>Wheat import in 2007</b> – The <a href="/wiki/Bombay_High_Court" title="Bombay High Court">Bombay High Court</a> issued notices to Union agriculture minister Pawar, questioning the decision to import defective red wheat, and asking for a directive to submit details of procurement of the crop from different states and the exact process of importing it.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Sugar prices in 2009</b> – Opposition parties, including the BJP and the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">CPI(M)</a> accused Pawar of engineering a steep rise in the price of sugar to the advantage of hoarders and importers.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Wheat, Sugar, Rice, and Bean prices in 2009–2010</b> – The opposition accused Pawar to be responsible on the issue of spiraling prices.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Farmer_suicides">Farmer suicides</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Farmer suicides"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the 1990s there had been a high number of farmer suicides in India: in excess of 10,000 per year, and totalling over 200,000 between 1997 and 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar, as the agricultural minister, in 2006 had underplayed the rate of farmer suicide in India.<sup id="cite_ref-Sud2009_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sud2009-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, he claimed at that time that his department was taking the necessary steps to reduce the numbers.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> His ministry initiated a series of government inquiries to look into the causes of farmers' suicides in 2012. In 2013 Pawar admitted that the suicides was a serious issue with many factors being responsible, and he said the government was increasing investment in agriculture and raising minimum prices of crops to increase farmers' income.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Promotion_of_endosulfan">Promotion of endosulfan</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Promotion of endosulfan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Even though the pesticide <a href="/wiki/Endosulfan" title="Endosulfan">endosulfan</a> has been banned, India is slow to phase it out. In spite of its known <a href="/wiki/Endosulfan#Health_effects" title="Endosulfan">negative health effects</a>, Pawar made a remark that endosulfan is not yet proved dangerous. This remark prompted activist Dr. <a href="/wiki/Vandana_Shiva" title="Vandana Shiva">Vandana Shiva</a> to call him a corrupt minister.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_issues">Other issues</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Other issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, Pawar gave up the chairmanship of the Empowered Group of Ministers investigating the <a href="/wiki/2G_spectrum_case" title="2G spectrum case">2G spectrum case</a>, days after his appointment by the prime minister, fearing that his association with the decision-making process would drag him into the 2G Spectrum controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, he also decided to resign from the committee that was reviewing the draft of the anti-corruption <a href="/wiki/The_Lokpal_and_Lokayuktas_Act,_2013" title="The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013">Lokpal bill</a> after his inclusion in the committee was criticized by the anti-corruption campaigner, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Hazare" title="Anna Hazare">Anna Hazare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sardesai2015_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sardesai2015-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Career_since_2014">Career since 2014</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Career since 2014"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2012, Pawar announced that he will not contest the 2014 <a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> elections, in order to make way for young leadership.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar is at present a member of the <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a>. He was elected to the body in April 2014 for a six-year term. He lost his ministerial position when the BJP-led NDA defeated the ruling UPA government, in which Pawar was the minister of agriculture, in the <a href="/wiki/2014_Indian_general_election" title="2014 Indian general election">general elections of 2014</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wallace2015_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wallace2015-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar's NCP also lost power in Maharashtra after the <a href="/wiki/2014_Maharashtra_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election">2014 assembly elections</a>. The BJP had won a plurality of seats in the new assembly and initially formed a minority government with the NCP.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The BJP's estranged ally, the Shiv Sena later joined the BJP-led government, and that government then did not need the support of the NCP. In May 2017, Pawar ruled out being a candidate for the June <a href="/wiki/2017_Indian_presidential_election" title="2017 Indian presidential election">2017 Indian presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 2019 elections to the <a href="/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">Lok Sabha</a>, Pawar's NCP and the Congress party had a seat-sharing arrangement.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, despite their differences, the BJP and <a href="/wiki/Shiv_Sena_(1966%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiv Sena (1966–2022)">Shiv Sena</a> once again contested the elections together under the <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Alliance" title="National Democratic Alliance">National Democratic Alliance</a> (NDA) banner.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The election gave a landslide victory to Narendra Modi's BJP. Out of the 48 seats in <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra_Legislative_Assembly" title="Maharashtra Legislative Assembly">Maharashtra</a>, the Congress party won only one seat in the state, whereas the NCP won five seats from its stronghold of western Maharashtra.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2019 Lok Sabha elections were soon followed by elections to the <a href="/wiki/2019_Maharashtra_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election">Vidhan Sabhaa</a> in October 2019.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Predictions for the state's ruling BJP–Shiv Sena alliance to win by a large margin led to a steady stream of defections from the NCP to the ruling alliance. Pawar was the star campaigner for the NCP-Congress alliance in the state.His campaigning during the assembly election was credited with helping not only the NCP but also the leaderless Congress party.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Against predictions, the actual voting left the ruling alliance with fewer seats than in 2014. After the election, Pawar thought that his party would remain in opposition in the new assembly. However, differences between the Shiv Sena and the BJP led to a month of <a href="/wiki/2019_Maharashtra_political_crisis" title="2019 Maharashtra political crisis">political drama</a>, with Pawar and his family playing a pivotal roles. The drama ended with the NCP coming back into power on 28 November 2019, as part of a <a href="/wiki/Maha_Vikas_Aghadi" title="Maha Vikas Aghadi">coalition</a> between Shiv Sena, Congress, and the NCP, led by the Shiv Sena chief, <a href="/wiki/Uddhav_Thackeray" title="Uddhav Thackeray">Uddhav Thackeray</a>, as the new <a href="/wiki/List_of_chief_ministers_of_Maharashtra" title="List of chief ministers of Maharashtra">chief minister of Maharashtra</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In June 2020, Pawar was re-elected to the <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sharad Pawar, the founder and chief of NCP since 1999, announced his decision to step down from his post and also his unwillingness to contest election in future,at the launch of the second edition of his political memoirs ' Lok Maze Sangati' ('People Accompany Me'). Sharad Pawar has had a long period of public life from 1 May 1958 to 1 May 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sharad Pawar took back his decision to step down as national leader of National Congress Party, citing "strong sentiments" his resignation had evoked among the party workers as well as leaders across the country. The octogenarian leader clarified that he would focus on assigning new responsibilities, through organizational changes and creating new leadership.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2023_Ajit_Pawar's_rebellion"><span id="2023_Ajit_Pawar.27s_rebellion"></span>2023 Ajit Pawar's rebellion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 2023 Ajit Pawar's rebellion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2023_Maharashtra_political_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Maharashtra political crisis">2023 Maharashtra political crisis</a></div> <p>In July 2023, Ajit Pawar rebelled against Sharad Pawar and joined ruling BJP-Shiv sena government and took oath as Deputy Chief minister of Maharashtra, majority of NCP's sitting MLAs deserted the party in support of A. Pawar. He claimed to election commission that he's the president of NCP, later in his followers first public meeting, he claimed the ownership of party including its name, election symbol. This rebellion results in to two factions in the party: Sharad Pawar loyalist and Ajit Pawar's supporters, causing the <a href="/wiki/2022_Maharashtra_political_crisis" title="2022 Maharashtra political crisis">2022 Shiv sena like political crisis</a> for Sharad Pawar.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Member_of_coordination_committee_of_Indian_National_Developmental_Inclusive_Alliance">Member of coordination committee of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Member of coordination committee of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pawar has been appointed a member of the Coordination Committee of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Developmental_Inclusive_Alliance" title="Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance">Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance</a> at its Mumbai convention on 1 September 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The coordination committee will decide the national agenda, common campaign issues and common program of the country's main opposition alliance (<a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Developmental_Inclusive_Alliance" title="Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance">I.N.D.I.A.</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports_administration">Sports administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Sports administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pawar has interests in <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kabbadi" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabbadi">kabbadi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kho_kho" title="Kho kho">kho kho</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wrestling" title="Wrestling">wrestling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a>. He has served as the head of various sports organisations, including </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mumbai_Cricket_Association" title="Mumbai Cricket Association">Mumbai Cricket Association</a><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> Wrestling Association</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> Kabbadi Association</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> Kho Kho Association</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a> Olympics Association</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Board_of_Control_for_Cricket_in_India" title="Board of Control for Cricket in India">Board of Control for Cricket in India</a> President 2005–2008</li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">International Cricket Council</a> Vice President<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">International Cricket Council</a> President<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Pawar served as the president of Pune International Marathon Trust, which has hosted Pune International Marathon for last 22 years.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Educational_institutions">Educational institutions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Educational institutions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early in his public career in 1972, Pawar founded <a href="/w/index.php?title=%22Vidya_pratishthan%22&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title=""Vidya pratishthan" (page does not exist)">"Vidya pratishthan"</a><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for serving the educational needs of the rural poor. The organisation now runs a number of schools at all levels, and colleges specialising in subjects such as information technology, and Biotechnology in Baramati and other locations.<sup id="cite_ref-GojeGornale2011_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GojeGornale2011-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar is associated with the <i>Hon. Sharad Pawar Public School,</i><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="In what capacity he is associated with this school, is he a member of any committee or he is a trustee. (January 2022)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> under the <i>Shree Gurudatta Education Society</i>;<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Sharad Pawar International School, <a href="/wiki/Pune" title="Pune">Pune</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sharad_Pawar_Cricket_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy">Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy</a>, near Mumbai. Pawar is the current president of the century-old educational organisation <a href="/wiki/Rayat_Shikshan_Sanstha" title="Rayat Shikshan Sanstha">Rayat Shikshan Sanstha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="Is this statement is still showing present situation, is he still chief of Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, clarify, add year. (January 2022)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criminal_links">Criminal links</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Criminal links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1992–93, the then Maharashtra Chief Minister <a href="/wiki/Sudhakarrao_Naik" title="Sudhakarrao Naik">Sudhakarrao Naik</a> made a statement that the state leader of <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> party and erstwhile-Chief Minister Pawar, had asked him to "go easy on <a href="/wiki/Pappu_Kalani" title="Pappu Kalani">Pappu Kalani</a>", a well known criminal-turned-politician.<sup id="cite_ref-fear_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fear-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shiv Sena chief, <a href="/wiki/Bal_Thackeray" title="Bal Thackeray">Bal Thackeray</a>, later concurred with these allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-express2_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-express2-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further, Chief Minister Naik also alleged that it was possible that Kalani and <a href="/wiki/Hitendra_Thakur" title="Hitendra Thakur">Hitendra Thakur</a>, another criminal-turned-politician from <a href="/wiki/Virar" title="Virar">Virar</a>, had been given tickets to contest election for the Maharashtra State Legislature at the behest of Pawar, who also put in a word for Naik with the police when the latter was arrested for his role in post-<a href="/wiki/Demolition_of_the_Babri_Masjid" title="Demolition of the Babri Masjid">Demolition of the Babri Masjid</a> riots in Mumbai.<sup id="cite_ref-express1_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-express1-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pawar is also alleged to have close links with the underworld don <a href="/wiki/Dawood_Ibrahim" title="Dawood Ibrahim">Dawood Ibrahim</a><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> through Ibrahim's henchman Lakhan Singh based in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> and close relationship with <a href="/wiki/Shahid_Balwa" title="Shahid Balwa">Shahid Balwa</a>, also a suspect in the <a href="/wiki/2G_spectrum_case" title="2G spectrum case">2G spectrum case</a>. These allegations were strengthened by the revelation about the involvement of <a href="/wiki/Vinod_Goenka" title="Vinod Goenka">Vinod Goenka</a>, Balwa's business partner, in a controversial commercial project in <a href="/wiki/Yerwada" class="mw-redirect" title="Yerwada">Yerwada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pune" title="Pune">Pune</a>, which was being constructed under the same survey number as Pawar's family friend, Atul Chordia, had constructed the Panchshil Tech Park. BJP leader <a href="/wiki/Eknath_Khadse" title="Eknath Khadse">Eknath Khadse</a> alleged that it was Balwa who had applied for environmental clearance for the two projects, a charge that Chordia refuted. Coincidentally, Chordia's Panchshil Pvt. Ltd. has Pawar's daughter, <a href="/wiki/Supriya_Sule" title="Supriya Sule">Supriya Sule</a>, and her husband Sadanand as investors.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The state government's decision to hand over a 3-acre plot of the Yerwada police station for "re-development" to Balwa was retracted following Balwa's arrest. </p><p>For several years, confusion existed about the number of blasts in the <a href="/wiki/1993_Bombay_bombings" title="1993 Bombay bombings">1993 Bombay Bombings</a>, whether they were 12 or 13 in number. This was because Pawar, the then chief minister of <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>, stated on television that day that there had been 13 blasts, and included a Muslim-dominated locality in the list. He later revealed that he had lied on purpose, and that there had been only 12 blasts, none of them in Muslim-dominated areas; he also confessed that he had attempted to mislead the public into believing that the blasts could be the work of the <a href="/wiki/LTTE" class="mw-redirect" title="LTTE">LTTE</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lankan</a> militant organization, when in fact intelligence reports had already confirmed to him that Mumbai's Muslim underworld (known as the "D-Company," a reference to <a href="/wiki/Dawood_Ibrahim" title="Dawood Ibrahim">Dawood Ibrahim</a>) were the perpetrators of the serial blasts.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Land_allotment">Land allotment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Land allotment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 27 October 2007, the Bombay High Court served notices to institutions headed by Pawar, <a href="/wiki/Ajit_Pawar" title="Ajit Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a>, and Sadanand Sule (Pawar's son-in-law), along with a corresponding notice served to the Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation (MKVDC) on why special privileges were given to Pawar and his family. This was done in consideration of <a href="/wiki/Public_Interest_Litigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Interest Litigation">Public Interest Litigation</a> No. 148 of 2006, filed by Shamsunder Potare alleging that the said 2002 land allocations in <a href="/wiki/Pune" title="Pune">Pune</a> were illegal. The institutions and properties mentioned include: </p> <ul><li>Two 141.15-acre (57.12 ha) plots given allotted to Vidya Pratishthan, an educational society headed by Sharad Pawar</li> <li>A 2-acre (0.81 ha) plot allotted to Anant Smriti Pratishthan, headed by Ajit Pawar, the Maharashtra state minister for irrigation and Pawar's nephew</li> <li>A 32.12-acre (13.00 ha) plot allotted to Lavasa Corporation, owned by Sule. Sule handed over his share in 2006.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (November 2014)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>A 1-acre (0.40 ha) plot allotted to Shivajinagar Agriculture College</li> <li>A 3-acre (1.2 ha) plot allotted to Sharadchandraji Scout and Guide Training Institute.</li></ul> <p>These allocations were allegedly made by NCP leader and minister Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar who was in charge of MKVDC at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-tribune1_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tribune1-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ndtv1_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ndtv1-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar was served a <a href="/wiki/Contempt_of_court" title="Contempt of court">contempt of court</a> notice on 1 May 2008 in connection with this case for issuing statements to the press even though the matter was <i>subjudice</i> at the time. Also in connection with the case, the respondents were directed not to create third-party interests in the property under dispute and to undertake any developments at their own risk.<sup id="cite_ref-bhc1_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bhc1-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-toi1_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toi1-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="IPL_exemption_from_tax_controversy">IPL exemption from tax controversy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: IPL exemption from tax controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2010, in the case of tax exemptions of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Premier_League" title="Indian Premier League">Indian Premier League</a> (IPL), Shiv Sena MLA <a href="/wiki/Subhash_Desai" title="Subhash Desai">Subhash Desai</a> alleged that the state cabinet decided in January to impose the tax, before the year's IPL season started, but the decision was not implemented because of NCP chief Pawar's association with the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Control_for_Cricket_in_India" title="Board of Control for Cricket in India">Board of Control for Cricket in India</a> (BCCI).<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bombay High Court in August 2010 said there was "nothing on record" to show that the Union Minister influenced the Maharashtra government's decision to exempt Indian Premier League matches from entertainment tax.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Asset_declaration">Asset declaration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Asset declaration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2011, Pawar declared his assets to be worth <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>120 million</span> (equivalent to <span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>250 million or US$3.0 million in 2023) as part of a mandatory disclosure, but his critics claimed that his wealth far exceeded the stated amount.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, it was alleged that the Pawar family indirectly held a 16% stake in the City Corporation, which had bid <span class="nowrap"><span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>11.76 billion</span> (equivalent to <span style="white-space: nowrap">₹</span>26 billion or US$320 million in 2023) for the Pune franchise of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Premier_League" title="Indian Premier League">Indian Premier League</a> (IPL). Pawar and his family denied the allegations, but the bidders board of the IPL contradicted their claims.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nira_Radia's_allegations"><span id="Nira_Radia.27s_allegations"></span>Nira Radia's allegations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Nira Radia's allegations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2011, under investigation of the <a href="/wiki/2G_spectrum_case" title="2G spectrum case">2G spectrum case</a> <a href="/wiki/Radia_tapes_controversy" title="Radia tapes controversy">Nira Radia</a> told the <a href="/wiki/Central_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Central Bureau of Investigation">Central Bureau of Investigation</a> (CBI) that agriculture minister Pawar may be controlling the controversial DB Realty. According to the reports, she also told the investigative agency that Pawar may have spoken with former telecom minister <a href="/wiki/A._Raja" title="A. Raja">A. Raja</a> about the allocation of spectrum and licence to <a href="/wiki/Etisalat#Etisalat_–_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Etisalat">Swan Telecom</a>. Radia also said that she had no documentary proof to back up her allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar has denied any link with former DB managing director <a href="/wiki/Shahid_Balwa" title="Shahid Balwa">Shahid Balwa</a> who is now in CBI custody.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lavasa">Lavasa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Lavasa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pawar is alleged to have demanded compensation for allowing the planned-city <a href="/wiki/Lavasa" title="Lavasa">Lavasa</a> to be constructed. When Lavasa Corporation was receiving necessary clearances from the government of Maharashtra, relatives of Pawar had part-ownership of the company developing the project.<sup id="cite_ref-nepotism1_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nepotism1-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pawar's daughter and son-in-law had more than 20% ownership between 2002 and 2004, and they later sold their stakes.<sup id="cite_ref-nepo_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nepo-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A nephew of his was chairman of Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation (MKVDC) when the MKVDC signed off on lease agreements for Lavasa and allowed it to store water and build dams.<sup id="cite_ref-nepotism1_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nepotism1-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comments_on_the_2010_Pune_bombing">Comments on the 2010 Pune bombing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Comments on the 2010 Pune bombing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/2010_Pune_bombing" title="2010 Pune bombing">2010 Pune bombing</a> of German Bakery, Pawar appeared to take the incident lightly. He said to the reporters, "It is not alright to arrive at a conclusion that the entire Pune city has been targeted. The place where the blast took place is an isolated area", adding "when I was Chief Minister, Mumbai saw 11 simultaneous blasts but everything returned to normal soon."<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slapping_incident">Slapping incident</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Slapping incident"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pawar was slapped by a youth named Harvinder Singh at the <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a> Municipal Corporation centre while leaving the premises after attending a literary function on 24 November 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The attacker, who previously is said to have assaulted former telecom minister <a href="/wiki/Sukh_Ram" title="Sukh Ram">Sukh Ram</a>, was later arrested. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turban_controversy">Turban controversy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Turban controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2018, Pawar asked party members to felicitate him with the pagadi (<a href="/wiki/Pagri_(turban)" title="Pagri (turban)">turban</a>) of social reformer <a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Phule" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahatma Phule">Mahatma Phule</a>, instead of the usual <a href="/wiki/Puneri_Pagadi" title="Puneri Pagadi">Puneri Pagadi</a> worn by <a href="/wiki/Peshwa" title="Peshwa">peshwas</a> (prime ministers) of the <a href="/wiki/Maratha_Confederacy" title="Maratha Confederacy">Maratha Empire</a>. In response to criticism that he was trying to stir up anti-<a href="/wiki/Brahmin" title="Brahmin">Brahmin</a> sentiment and appeal to <a href="/wiki/Dalit" title="Dalit">Dalits</a>, Pawar said that he wasn't rejecting any section of society but honoring his idols Phule, <a href="/wiki/Babasaheb_Ambedkar" class="mw-redirect" title="Babasaheb Ambedkar">Babasaheb Ambedkar</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Shahu_of_Kolhapur" title="Shahu of Kolhapur">Shahu Maharaj</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Details_of_Criminal_Cases">Details of Criminal Cases</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Details of Criminal Cases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Criminal Cases where accused </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>IPC Sections</th> <th>Criminal Cases(brief) </th></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-409</td> <td>charges related to Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent </td></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-406</td> <td>charges related to criminal breach of trust </td></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-465</td> <td>charges related to forgery </td></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-467</td> <td>charges related to Forgery of valuable security, will, etc. </td></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-468</td> <td>charges related to Forgery for purpose of cheating </td></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-471</td> <td>charges related to Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record </td></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-34</td> <td>charges related to Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention </td></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-120B</td> <td>charges related to Punishment of criminal conspiracy </td></tr> <tr> <td>IPC Section-420</td> <td>charges related to Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_President,_Shri_Pranab_Mukherjee_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sharadchandra_Govindrao_Pawar,_at_a_Civil_Investiture_Ceremony,_at_Rashtrapati_Bhavan,_in_New_Delhi_on_March_30,_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/The_President%2C_Shri_Pranab_Mukherjee_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sharadchandra_Govindrao_Pawar%2C_at_a_Civil_Investiture_Ceremony%2C_at_Rashtrapati_Bhavan%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_March_30%2C_2017.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/The_President%2C_Shri_Pranab_Mukherjee_presenting_the_Padma_Vibhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sharadchandra_Govindrao_Pawar%2C_at_a_Civil_Investiture_Ceremony%2C_at_Rashtrapati_Bhavan%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_March_30%2C_2017.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, 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class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The timing of the award was questioned by observers and some attributed it to political motivations of the <a href="/wiki/BJP" class="mw-redirect" title="BJP">BJP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Newsmakers Achievers Awards 2022<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>honour Lokmat Parliamentary lifetime achievement award in the hands of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu for parliamentarians who bring about progress, create hope and are a source of inspiration and pride for country.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See 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Ravindranath (1 February 1992) <i>Sharad Pawar- the making of a modern maratha</i> South Asia Books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-85674-46-9" title="Special:BookSources/81-85674-46-9">81-85674-46-9</a></li> <li>Page 23 of the Times of India, New Delhi, India, Tuesday, 12 December 2006</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7940665.stm">Profile</a> at <i><a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a></i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130201155344/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=327">Profile at government of India website</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharad_Pawar&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; 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font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Vasantdada_Patil" title="Vasantdada Patil">Vasantdada Patil</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Maharashtra">Chief Minister of Maharashtra</a> </b><br />18 July 1978 – 17 February 1980 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/A_R_Antule" class="mw-redirect" title="A R Antule">A R Antule</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Shankarrao_Chavan" title="Shankarrao Chavan">Shankarrao Chavan</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Maharashtra">Chief Minister of Maharashtra</a> </b><br />26 June 1988 – 25 June 1991 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sudhakarrao_Naik" title="Sudhakarrao Naik">Sudhakarrao Naik</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Chandra_Shekhar" title="Chandra Shekhar">Chandra Shekhar</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(India)" title="Minister of Defence (India)">Minister of Defence</a> </b><br />26 June 1991 – 6 March 1993 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/P._V._Narasimha_Rao" title="P. V. Narasimha Rao">P. V. Narasimha Rao</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Shankarrao_Chavan" title="Shankarrao Chavan">Shankarrao Chavan</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Maharashtra" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Maharashtra">Chief Minister of Maharashtra</a> </b><br />6 March 1993 – 14 March 1995 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Manohar_Joshi" title="Manohar Joshi">Manohar Joshi</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Rajnath_Singh" title="Rajnath Singh">Rajnath Singh</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Agriculture_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Agriculture (India)">Minister of Agriculture</a> </b><br />23 May 2004 - 26 May 2014 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Radha_Mohan_Singh" title="Radha Mohan Singh">Radha Mohan Singh</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sharad_Yadav" title="Sharad Yadav">Sharad Yadav</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Consumer_Affairs,_Food_and_Public_Distribution_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (India)">Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution</a> </b><br />23 May 2004 - 19 January 2011 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/K._V._Thomas" title="K. V. Thomas">K. V. Thomas</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/Lok_Sabha" title="Lok Sabha">Lok Sabha</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_in_Lok_Sabha" title="Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha">Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha</a> </b><br />19 March 1998 – 26 April 1999 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sonia_Gandhi" title="Sonia Gandhi">Sonia Gandhi</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Shankarrao_Bajirao_Patil" title="Shankarrao Bajirao Patil">Shankarrao Bajirao Patil</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Baramati_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Baramati Lok Sabha constituency">Baramati</a> </b><br />1984-1985 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sambhajirao_Kakade" title="Sambhajirao Kakade">Sambhajirao Kakade</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ajit_Pawar" title="Ajit Pawar">Ajit Pawar</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Baramati_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Baramati Lok Sabha constituency">Baramati</a> </b><br />1991-1994 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Bapusaheb Thite</div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Bapusaheb Thite</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Baramati_Lok_Sabha_constituency" title="Baramati Lok Sabha constituency">Baramati</a> </b><br />1996-2004 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Supriya_Sule" title="Supriya Sule">Supriya Sule</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #191970;">Civic offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Rameshwar_Thakur" title="Rameshwar Thakur">Rameshwar Thakur</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Bharat_Scouts_and_Guides" title="Bharat Scouts and Guides">Presidents of the Bharat Scouts and Guides</a> </b><br />2001–2004 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Rameshwar_Thakur" title="Rameshwar Thakur">Rameshwar Thakur</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ranbir_Singh_Mahendra" title="Ranbir Singh Mahendra">Ranbir Singh Mahendra</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; 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white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ebrahim_Alkazi" title="Ebrahim Alkazi">Ebrahim Alkazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishori_Amonkar" title="Kishori Amonkar">Kishori Amonkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prabha_Atre" title="Prabha Atre">Prabha Atre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan" title="Amitabh Bachchan">Amitabh Bachchan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teejan_Bai" title="Teejan Bai">Teejan Bai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Balamuralikrishna" title="M. Balamuralikrishna">M. Balamuralikrishna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balasaraswati" title="Balasaraswati">T. Balasaraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asha_Bhosle" title="Asha Bhosle">Asha Bhosle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nandalal_Bose" title="Nandalal Bose">Nandalal Bose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hariprasad_Chaurasia" title="Hariprasad Chaurasia">Hariprasad Chaurasia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiranjeevi" title="Chiranjeevi">Chiranjeevi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girija_Devi" title="Girija Devi">Girija Devi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Gandharva" title="Kumar Gandharva">Kumar Gandharva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adoor_Gopalakrishnan" title="Adoor Gopalakrishnan">Adoor Gopalakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satish_Gujral" title="Satish Gujral">Satish Gujral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gangubai_Hangal" title="Gangubai Hangal">Gangubai Hangal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhupen_Hazarika" title="Bhupen Hazarika">Bhupen Hazarika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._F._Husain" title="M. F. Husain">M. F. Husain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakir_Hussain_(musician)" title="Zakir Hussain (musician)">Zakir Hussain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semmangudi_Srinivasa_Iyer" title="Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer">Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi" title="Bhimsen Joshi">Bhimsen Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan" title="Ali Akbar Khan">Ali Akbar Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amjad_Ali_Khan" title="Amjad Ali Khan">Amjad Ali Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allauddin_Khan" title="Allauddin Khan">Allauddin Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bismillah_Khan" title="Bismillah Khan">Bismillah Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Mustafa_Khan_(singer)" title="Ghulam Mustafa Khan (singer)">Ghulam Mustafa Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yamini_Krishnamurthy" title="Yamini Krishnamurthy">Yamini Krishnamurthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Kumar" title="Dilip Kumar">Dilip Kumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._K._Laxman" title="R. K. Laxman">R. K. Laxman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birju_Maharaj" title="Birju Maharaj">Birju Maharaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kishan_Maharaj" title="Kishan Maharaj">Kishan Maharaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonal_Mansingh" title="Sonal Mansingh">Sonal Mansingh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallikarjun_Mansur" title="Mallikarjun Mansur">Mallikarjun Mansur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zubin_Mehta" title="Zubin Mehta">Zubin Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Miranda" title="Mario Miranda">Mario Miranda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chhannulal_Mishra" title="Chhannulal Mishra">Chhannulal Mishra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelucharan_Mohapatra" title="Kelucharan Mohapatra">Kelucharan Mohapatra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Mohapatra" title="Raghunath Mohapatra">Raghunath Mohapatra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasraj" title="Jasraj">Jasraj Motiram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benode_Behari_Mukherjee" title="Benode Behari Mukherjee">Benode Behari Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrishikesh_Mukherjee" title="Hrishikesh Mukherjee">Hrishikesh Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajinikanth" title="Rajinikanth">Rajinikanth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Narayan" title="Ram Narayan">Ram Narayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._K._Pattammal" title="D. K. Pattammal">D. K. Pattammal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Shankar_Pillai" title="K. Shankar Pillai">K. Shankar Pillai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balwant_Moreshwar_Purandare" class="mw-redirect" title="Balwant Moreshwar Purandare">Balwant Moreshwar Purandare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akkineni_Nageswara_Rao" title="Akkineni Nageswara Rao">Akkineni Nageswara Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaloji_Narayana_Rao" title="Kaloji Narayana Rao">Kaloji Narayana Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._H._Raza" title="S. H. Raza">S. H. Raza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zohra_Sehgal" title="Zohra Sehgal">Zohra Sehgal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uday_Shankar" title="Uday Shankar">Uday Shankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Shankar" title="Ravi Shankar">Ravi Shankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._Shantaram" title="V. Shantaram">V. Shantaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivkumar_Sharma" title="Shivkumar Sharma">Shivkumar Sharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umayalpuram_K._Sivaraman" title="Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman">Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Subbulakshmi" title="M. S. Subbulakshmi">M. S. Subbulakshmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._G._Subramanyan" title="K. G. Subramanyan">K. G. Subramanyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapila_Vatsyayan" title="Kapila Vatsyayan">Kapila Vatsyayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homai_Vyarawalla" title="Homai Vyarawalla">Homai Vyarawalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Civil service</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bimala_Prasad_Chaliha" title="Bimala Prasad Chaliha">Bimala Prasad Chaliha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naresh_Chandra" title="Naresh Chandra">Naresh Chandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._N._Chaturvedi" title="T. N. Chaturvedi">T. N. Chaturvedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayanto_Nath_Chaudhuri" title="Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri">Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suranjan_Das" title="Suranjan Das">Suranjan Das</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajeshwar_Dayal" title="Rajeshwar Dayal">Rajeshwar Dayal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basanti_Devi" title="Basanti Devi">Basanti Devi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._N._Dhar" title="P. N. Dhar">P. N. 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Krishnamurthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paramasiva_Prabhakar_Kumaramangalam" title="Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam">P. Prabhakar Kumaramangalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratap_Chandra_Lal" title="Pratap Chandra Lal">Pratap Chandra Lal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._B._Lall" title="K. B. Lall">K. B. Lall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Manekshaw" title="Sam Manekshaw">Sam Manekshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Om_Prakash_Mehra" title="Om Prakash Mehra">Om Prakash Mehra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Sinha_Mehta" title="Mohan Sinha Mehta">Mohan Sinha Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._G._K._Menon" title="M. G. K. Menon">M. G. K. Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brajesh_Mishra" title="Brajesh Mishra">Brajesh Mishra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumati_Morarjee" title="Sumati Morarjee">Sumati Morarjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arcot_Ramasamy_Mudaliar" title="Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar">A. 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Varadaraja Rao">V. K. R. V. Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bipin_Rawat" title="Bipin Rawat">Bipin Rawat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khusro_Faramurz_Rustamji" title="Khusro Faramurz Rustamji">Khusro Faramurz Rustamji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harish_Chandra_Sarin" title="Harish Chandra Sarin">Harish Chandra Sarin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binay_Ranjan_Sen" title="Binay Ranjan Sen">Binay Ranjan Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homi_Sethna" title="Homi Sethna">Homi Sethna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arjan_Singh" title="Arjan Singh">Arjan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harbaksh_Singh" title="Harbaksh Singh">Harbaksh Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sant_Kirpal_Singh_Ji_Maharaj" class="mw-redirect" title="Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj">Kirpal Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manmohan_Singh" title="Manmohan Singh">Manmohan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarlok_Singh_(economist)" title="Tarlok Singh (economist)">Tarlok Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lallan_Prasad_Singh" title="Lallan Prasad Singh">Lallan Prasad Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Sivaraman" title="B. Sivaraman">Balaram Sivaraman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Prasad_Srivastava" title="Chandrika Prasad Srivastava">Chandrika Prasad Srivastava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._Swaminathan" title="T. Swaminathan">T. Swaminathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arun_Shridhar_Vaidya" title="Arun Shridhar Vaidya">Arun Shridhar Vaidya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharma_Vira" title="Dharma Vira">Dharma Vira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narinder_Nath_Vohra" title="Narinder Nath Vohra">Narinder Nath Vohra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Literature and <br />education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V._S._R._Arunachalam" title="V. S. R. Arunachalam">V. S. R. Arunachalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagdish_Bhagwati" title="Jagdish Bhagwati">Jagdish Bhagwati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose" title="Satyendra Nath Bose">Satyendra Nath Bose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tara_Chand_(archaeologist)" title="Tara Chand (archaeologist)">Tara Chand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suniti_Kumar_Chatterji" title="Suniti Kumar Chatterji">Suniti Kumar Chatterji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._P._Chattopadhyaya" title="D. P. Chattopadhyaya">D. P. 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Shrimali">Kalu Lal Shrimali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govindbhai_Shroff" title="Govindbhai Shroff">Govindbhai Shroff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khushwant_Singh" title="Khushwant Singh">Khushwant Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandeshwar_Prasad_Narayan_Singh" title="Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh">Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premlila_Vithaldas_Thackersey" title="Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey">Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahadevi_Varma" title="Mahadevi Varma">Mahadevi Varma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashir_Hussain_Zaidi" title="Bashir Hussain Zaidi">Bashir Hussain Zaidi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Medicine</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jasbir_Singh_Bajaj" title="Jasbir Singh Bajaj">Jasbir Singh Bajaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._K._Goyal" title="B. 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Shanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vithal_Nagesh_Shirodkar" title="Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar">Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prakash_Narain_Tandon" title="Prakash Narain Tandon">Prakash Narain Tandon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihaspati_Dev_Triguna" title="Brihaspati Dev Triguna">Brihaspati Dev Triguna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Valiathan" title="M. S. Valiathan">M. S. Valiathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Mahalanabis" title="Dilip Mahalanabis">Dilip Mahalanabis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sunderlal_Bahuguna" title="Sunderlal Bahuguna">Sunderlal Bahuguna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._K._S._Iyengar" title="B. K. S. Iyengar">B. K. S. 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Advani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montek_Singh_Ahluwalia" title="Montek Singh Ahluwalia">Montek Singh Ahluwalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aruna_Asaf_Ali" title="Aruna Asaf Ali">Aruna Asaf Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fazal_Ali" class="mw-redirect" title="Fazal Ali">Fazal Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adarsh_Sein_Anand" title="Adarsh Sein Anand">Adarsh Sein Anand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhav_Shrihari_Aney" title="Madhav Shrihari Aney">Madhav Shrihari Aney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkash_Singh_Badal" title="Parkash Singh Badal">Parkash Singh Badal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikander_Bakht" title="Sikander Bakht">Sikander Bakht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milon_K._Banerji" title="Milon K. Banerji">Milon K. Banerji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Hameedullah_Beg" title="Mirza Hameedullah Beg">Mirza Hameedullah Beg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._N._Bhagwati" title="P. N. Bhagwati">P. N. Bhagwati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_Chelliah" title="Raja Chelliah">Raja Chelliah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._K._Daphtary" title="C. K. Daphtary">Chandra Kisan Daphtary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niren_De" title="Niren De">Niren De</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._D._Deshmukh" title="C. D. Deshmukh">C. D. Deshmukh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Lancelot_Dias" title="Anthony Lancelot Dias">Anthony Lancelot Dias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uma_Shankar_Dikshit" title="Uma Shankar Dikshit">Uma Shankar Dikshit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazi_Lhendup_Dorjee" title="Kazi Lhendup Dorjee">Kazi Lhendup Dorjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Fernandes" title="George Fernandes">George Fernandes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._B._Gajendragadkar" title="P. B. Gajendragadkar">P. B. Gajendragadkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Gilman" title="Benjamin Gilman">Benjamin Gilman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isma%C3%AFl_Omar_Guelleh" title="Ismaïl Omar Guelleh">Ismaïl Omar Guelleh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakir_Husain_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zakir Husain (politician)">Zakir Husain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._R._Krishna_Iyer" title="V. R. Krishna Iyer">V. R. Krishna Iyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagmohan" title="Jagmohan">Jagmohan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmi_Chand_Jain" title="Lakshmi Chand Jain">Lakshmi Chand Jain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arun_Jaitley" title="Arun Jaitley">Arun Jaitley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aditya_Nath_Jha" title="Aditya Nath Jha">Aditya Nath Jha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murli_Manohar_Joshi" title="Murli Manohar Joshi">Murli Manohar Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anerood_Jugnauth" title="Anerood Jugnauth">Anerood Jugnauth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehdi_Nawaz_Jung" title="Mehdi Nawaz Jung">Mehdi Nawaz Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Yavar_Jung" title="Ali Yavar Jung">Ali Yavar Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Kelkar" title="Vijay Kelkar">Vijay Kelkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Raj_Khanna" title="Hans Raj Khanna">Hans Raj Khanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._N._Khare" title="V. N. Khare">V. N. Khare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._G._Kher" title="B. G. Kher">Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akhlaqur_Rahman_Kidwai" title="Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai">Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jivraj_Narayan_Mehta" title="Jivraj Narayan Mehta">Jivraj Narayan Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Krishna_Menon" title="V. K. Krishna Menon">V. K. Krishna Menon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hirendranath_Mukherjee" title="Hirendranath Mukherjee">Hirendranath Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajoy_Mukherjee" title="Ajoy Mukherjee">Ajoy Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pranab_Mukherjee" title="Pranab Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padmaja_Naidu" title="Padmaja Naidu">Padmaja Naidu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venkaiah_Naidu" title="Venkaiah Naidu">Venkaiah Naidu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulzarilal_Nanda" title="Gulzarilal Nanda">Gulzarilal Nanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Govind_Narain" title="Govind Narain">Govind Narain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fali_Sam_Nariman" title="Fali Sam Nariman">Fali Sam Nariman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hosei_Norota" title="Hosei Norota">Hosei Norota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanabhoy_Palkhivala" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanabhoy Palkhivala">Nanabhoy Palkhivala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Parasaran" title="K. Parasaran">K. Parasaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hari_Vinayak_Pataskar" title="Hari Vinayak Pataskar">Hari Vinayak Pataskar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunder_Lal_Patwa" title="Sunder Lal Patwa">Sunder Lal Patwa</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sharad Pawar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._R._Pillai" title="N. R. Pillai">Naryana Raghvan Pillai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Prakasa" title="Sri Prakasa">Sri Prakasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._G._Ranga" title="N. G. Ranga">N. G. Ranga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravi_Narayana_Reddy" title="Ravi Narayana Reddy">Ravi Narayana Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y._Venugopal_Reddy" class="mw-redirect" title="Y. Venugopal Reddy">Y. Venugopal Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Mohammed_Sadiq" title="Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq">Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmi_Sahgal" title="Lakshmi Sahgal">Lakshmi Sahgal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._A._Sangma" title="P. A. Sangma">P. A. Sangma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._C._Setalvad" title="M. C. Setalvad">M. C. Setalvad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyan_Singh" title="Kalyan Singh">Kalyan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karan_Singh" title="Karan Singh">Karan Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagendra_Singh" title="Nagendra Singh">Nagendra Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swaran_Singh" title="Swaran Singh">Swaran Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Sisulu" title="Walter Sisulu">Walter Sisulu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soli_Sorabjee" title="Soli Sorabjee">Soli Sorabjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalyan_Sundaram" title="Kalyan Sundaram">Kalyan Sundaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sushma_Swaraj" title="Sushma Swaraj">Sushma Swaraj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandulal_Madhavlal_Trivedi" title="Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi">Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._N._Venkatachaliah" title="M. N. Venkatachaliah">M. N. Venkatachaliah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._K._Venugopal" title="K. K. Venugopal">Kottayan Katankot Venugopal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jigme_Dorji_Wangchuck" title="Jigme Dorji Wangchuck">Jigme Dorji Wangchuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Krishna" title="S. M. Krishna">S. M. Krishna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mulayam_Singh_Yadav" title="Mulayam Singh Yadav">Mulayam Singh Yadav</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Science and <br />engineering</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Aatre" title="V. K. Aatre">V. K. Aatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salim_Ali" title="Salim Ali">Salim Ali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Borlaug" title="Norman Borlaug">Norman Borlaug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar" title="Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar">Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajagopala_Chidambaram" title="Rajagopala Chidambaram">Rajagopala Chidambaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Correa" title="Charles Correa">Charles Correa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satish_Dhawan" title="Satish Dhawan">Satish Dhawan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anil_Kakodkar" title="Anil Kakodkar">Anil Kakodkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam" title="A. P. J. Abdul Kalam">A. P. J. Abdul Kalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnaswamy_Kasturirangan" title="Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan">Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana" title="Har Gobind Khorana">Har Gobind Khorana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daulat_Singh_Kothari" title="Daulat Singh Kothari">Daulat Singh Kothari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verghese_Kurien" title="Verghese Kurien">Verghese Kurien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghunath_Anant_Mashelkar" title="Raghunath Anant Mashelkar">Raghunath Anant Mashelkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Madhavan_Nair" title="G. Madhavan Nair">G. Madhavan Nair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roddam_Narasimha" title="Roddam Narasimha">Roddam Narasimha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jayant_Narlikar" title="Jayant Narlikar">Jayant Narlikar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajendra_K._Pachauri" title="Rajendra K. Pachauri">Rajendra K. Pachauri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Peary_Pal" title="Benjamin Peary Pal">Benjamin Peary Pal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yash_Pal" title="Yash Pal">Yash Pal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I._G._Patel" title="I. G. Patel">I. G. Patel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venkatraman_Ramakrishnan" class="mw-redirect" title="Venkatraman Ramakrishnan">Venkatraman Ramakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._R._Ramanathan" title="K. R. Ramanathan">K. R. Ramanathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raja_Ramanna" title="Raja Ramanna">Raja Ramanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._R._Rao" title="C. R. Rao">C. R. Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._N._R._Rao" title="C. N. R. Rao">C. N. R. Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palle_Rama_Rao" title="Palle Rama Rao">Palle Rama Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udupi_Ramachandra_Rao" title="Udupi Ramachandra Rao">Udupi Ramachandra Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Sarabhai" title="Vikram Sarabhai">Vikram Sarabhai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Man_Mohan_Sharma" title="Man Mohan Sharma">Man Mohan Sharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obaid_Siddiqi" title="Obaid Siddiqi">Obaid Siddiqi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._Sreedharan" title="E. Sreedharan">E. Sreedharan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._R._Srinivasan" title="M. R. Srinivasan">M. R. Srinivasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._C._George_Sudarshan" title="E. C. George Sudarshan">George Sudarshan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Swaminathan" title="M. S. Swaminathan">M. S. Swaminathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narinder_Singh_Kapany" title="Narinder Singh Kapany">Narinder Singh Kapany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._R._Srinivasa_Varadhan" title="S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan">S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Social work</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baba_Amte" title="Baba Amte">Baba Amte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandurang_Shastri_Athavale" title="Pandurang Shastri Athavale">Pandurang Shastri Athavale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janaki_Devi_Bajaj" title="Janaki Devi Bajaj">Janaki Devi Bajaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirabehn" title="Mirabehn">Mirabehn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamaladevi_Chattopadhyay" title="Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay">Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durgabai_Deshmukh" title="Durgabai Deshmukh">Durgabai Deshmukh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanaji_Deshmukh" title="Nanaji Deshmukh">Nanaji Deshmukh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nirmala_Deshpande" title="Nirmala Deshpande">Nirmala Deshpande</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohan_Dharia" title="Mohan Dharia">Mohan Dharia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U._N._Dhebar" title="U. N. Dhebar">U. N. Dhebar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerian_Gracias" title="Valerian Gracias">Valerian Gracias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veerendra_Heggade" title="Veerendra Heggade">Veerendra Heggade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Clubwala_Jadhav" title="Mary Clubwala Jadhav">Mary Clubwala Jadhav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaganvihari_Lallubhai_Mehta" title="Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta">Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Usha_Mehta" title="Usha Mehta">Usha Mehta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nirmala_Joshi" title="Nirmala Joshi">Sister Nirmala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nellie_Sengupta" title="Nellie Sengupta">Nellie Sengupta</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viswanathan_Anand" title="Viswanathan Anand">Viswanathan Anand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Hillary" title="Edmund Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Kom" title="Mary Kom">Mary Kom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar" title="Sachin Tendulkar">Sachin Tendulkar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em;font-weight:normal;">Trade and industry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="padding:0;line-height:1.3em; white-space:normal;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dhirubhai_Ambani" title="Dhirubhai Ambani">Dhirubhai Ambani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._D._Birla" title="G. 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E. Grant Govan">R. E. Grant Govan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1928–1933)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikandar_Hayat_Khan" title="Sikandar Hayat Khan">Sikandar Hayat Khan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1933–1935)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamidullah_Khan" title="Hamidullah Khan">Hamidullah Khan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1935–1937)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digvijaysinhji_Ranjitsinhji" class="mw-redirect" title="Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji">Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1937–1938)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Subbarayan" title="P. Subbarayan">P. Subbarayan</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1938–1946)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_de_Mello_(cricket_administrator)" title="Anthony de Mello (cricket administrator)">Anthony S. 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