People, Positions and Obituaries · 31 January 2026
Sunetra Pawar set to become Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister.
Exam-focused facts from the 31 January 2026 current affairs briefing.
Key facts
- Sunetra Pawar, wife of late Ajit Pawar, is set to take oath as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
- The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will hold a legislature party meeting at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai to finalise her position as legislature party leader.
- If appointed, Sunetra Pawar will become the first woman Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
- Sunetra Pawar is currently a Rajya Sabha MP and not a member of either house of the Maharashtra legislature.
- Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stated that the BJP will support any decision taken by the NCP regarding the Deputy Chief Minister post.
- Ajit Pawar, former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, died in a plane crash near Baramati airport in Pune district.