New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Maharashtra's Baramati on Thursday to attend the last rites of state's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who passed away in a plane crash earlier this morning.

Pawar's last rites will be performed with full state honours at 11 am on Thursday.Union Home Minister's visit is seen as a mark of respect to the departed leader and a gesture of solidarity with the bereaved family. Senior leaders from various political parties are also expected to reach Baramati to pay their last respects.

Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and a prominent political figure in Maharashtra, Pawar passed away in a chartered plane crash while travelling from Mumbai to Baramati this...