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Rohit Pawar and Ajit Pawar (Images/Agencies)
NEW DELHI: NCP (SP) person Rohit Pawar connected Saturday said that helium volition contiguous a elaborate presumption connected February 10 connected the aerial clang that killed Maharashtra lawman main curate Ajit Pawar.
He said that questions and doubts persist implicit the circumstances of the incident, which volition beryllium addressed during the briefing successful Mumbai.Speaking to reporters aft casting his ballot successful the Zilla Parishad elections successful Baramati, Rohit Pawar said that respective questions remained unanswered astir however and wherefore the clang occurred. He added that the forthcoming presumption would code these concerns successful detail.“Everyone has questions and doubts successful their minds. Why the clang happened and however it mightiness person happened—these issues volition beryllium raised connected February 10,” helium said.The Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections successful Maharashtra were held connected Saturday for 12 Zilla Parishads and 125 Panchayat Samitis. The polls had earlier been postponed pursuing Ajit Pawar’s decease successful the aerial clang connected January 28.Ajit Pawar was killed on with 4 others erstwhile a chartered Learjet craft crashed portion attempting to onshore astatine the table-top airstrip successful Baramati, Pune district. Those killed included his idiosyncratic information officer, the pilot, co-pilot and a formation attendant.
Rohit Pawar said that the precocious person had wished for unity betwixt the rival factions of the Nationalist Congress Party and that efforts toward a merger would continue. The NCP (SP), led by Sharad Pawar and the NCP person jointly contested the Zilla Parishad elections, with candidates warring connected the latter’s ‘clock’ symbol.“Ajit Dada sincerely wished that everyone should travel unneurotic arsenic 1 family. Everyone has travel unneurotic today.
Dada had made efforts, and we volition proceed to marque efforts successful the aforesaid manner. The household is inactive united,” Rohit Pawar said.Earlier, West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee alleged that Ajit Pawar’s decease could beryllium the effect of a governmental conspiracy and demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe.Citing reports that Pawar was considering leaving the BJP and rejoining the NCP (SP) led by Sharad Pawar, Banerjee said, “I request a due probe nether the supervision of the Supreme Court.
We person spot lone successful the Supreme Court. All different agencies person been wholly compromised.”She described Pawar’s decease arsenic a large nonaccomplishment and said helium was expected to instrumentality to the archetypal faction of his party.The Opposition MLA, who represents the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency successful Ahilyanagar district, besides said that helium would explicate the reasons and intent down the projected enactment merger connected February 12.“I volition explicate wherefore the merger was expected to hap and for what purpose.
Whether Ajit Dada’s volition was governmental oregon emotional, I volition clarify this connected February 12,” helium said.On the probe into the crash, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol said that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) were making accelerated progress.Providing an update, Mohol said the aircraft’s achromatic container had been recovered and was being analysed.“The achromatic container has been recovered, and the AAIB squad and the DGCA are moving connected it. The information volition beryllium downloaded, followed by investigation and an inquiry. A preliminary study volition beryllium released aft that,” Mohol said.He added that probe teams from the AAIB and the DGCA’s Mumbai Regional Office reached the clang tract connected the time of the incidental and that the AAIB Director General personally oversaw the archetypal probe.The probe is being conducted nether Rules 5 and 11 of the AAIB Rules, 2025, to find the series of events during the aircraft’s attempted landing amid reported mediocre visibility.Authorities person cautioned against drafting premature conclusions, stating that the findings volition beryllium based connected method investigation of the achromatic container data.
