Mumbai, Jan. 31 -- Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Rajya Sabha member Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, replacing her deceased husband and party chief Ajit Pawar, at the Lok Bhavan at 5 pm on Saturday, January 31.

Right after she took the oath as the Deputy Chief Minister, there were fervent chants of "Ajit Dada amar rahe" and "Bharat mata ki jai" from NCP workers.

Former NCP chief Ajit Pawar, popularly known as "Dada," died on Wednesday, January 28, after a plane carrying him and four others crashed near the Baramati airstrip in Maharashtra's Pune district.

She became the first Deputy CM of Maharashtra in the wake of the sympathy wave three days after her husband's demise, and is likely to figh...