India, Jan. 29 -- BJP MP Ravi Kishan termed the death of Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar as an "irreparable loss" to both the state and the country and said that he was known as "Baramati ka raja" (The king of Baramati). Track updates on Ajit Pawar death

Kishan, BJP's Gorakhpur MP, on Wednesday recalled his personal association with Pawar, the chief of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), who died in a fatal air crash in Baramati.

"There could not be a bigger loss for Maharashtra politics and for the country. I knew him personally, and he was known as 'Baramati ka raja', 'Rajneeti ka raja'," Kishan said while talking to the press outside the Parliament. The Lok Sabha on Wednesday paid tribute to Ajit Pawar following his death ...