Pune/New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- Thousands of people gathered in Baramati to bid farewell to Ajit Pawar whose mortal remains, wrapped in the national flag, were consigned to flames in his ancestral village Katewadi. Home minister Amit Shah, road transport minister Nitin Gadkari, BJP chief Nitin Nabin, CM Devendra Fadnavis and NCP founder Sharad Pawar were among the attendees. At the packed Vidya Pratishthan ground in Baramati, Pawar's sons Parth and Jay lit the funeral pyre as his wife Sunetra, who is a Rajya Sabha member, struggled to hold back tears, while the air resonated with chants of "Ajit Dada amar rahe". Announcements over loudspeakers urged people to maintain silence and discipline, and to pay their respects to the late leader from thei...