The roads in Baramati were teeming with people as mourners flooded the streets to reach Vidya Pratishthan, an educational campus of the Pawars, on Wednesday (January 28, 2026) evening, after the mortal remains of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar were brought.
All shops were shut and police presence was beefed up, as hundreds of vehicles made a beeline. A few kilometres away, at the crash site near the Baramati airstrip, police were deployed to control the crowd that thronged the site.
Forensic teams walked into the crash site to collect samples, as ambulances and convoys zapped past the airstrip. Mr. Pawar’s plane had crashed just a few metres from the runway, near a field. The impact was so severe, said eyewitnesses, that they heard several blasts in the morning.
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Baramati mourns its Ajit ‘Dada’
Baramati mourns Ajit Pawar’s tragic death as thousands gather to pay their respects to the beloved NCP leader.
