India, Jan. 31 -- Rajya Sabha MP Sunetra Pawar is likely to be sworn-in as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister on Saturday, replacing her late husband Ajit Pawar in the cabinet, said NCP Sources on Friday, signalling the party's continuation in ruling Mahayuti and delaying merger talks.She would be the first woman to hold the post of Deputy CM in the State, where the position was first created in 1978 when the coalition Government era began in Maharashtra.

Following the death of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in an air crash in Baramati on Wednesday, a section of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders had demanded that she be given the post held by her late husband in the Devendra Fadnavis-led cabinet.Her consent to accept the decision...