Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar resigns as Rajya Sabha MP

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar-led NCP National President Sunetra Pawar resigned her Rajya Sabha membership on Wednesday.

Recently, Sunetra Pawar won the Baramati byelection with a margin of 2 lakh 14 thousand and 93 votes, smashing the record of her late husband and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar in 2019, according to results announced here on Monday by the Maharashtra State Election Commission.

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Sunetra Pawar met Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan and submitted her resignation letter.

She will now represent the constituency as a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA).

According to rules, any person elected to two houses is required to resign from one house within 14 days of getting elected.

Meanwhile, a by-election will shortly be announced soon for the vacant Rajya Sabha seat vacated by Sunetra Pawar.

The Ajit Pawar-led NCP leadership is yet to decide who should be the candidate for the Rajya Sabha byelection.

It may be recalled that Maharashtra Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar’s elder son Parth Pawar took oath as a Rajya Sabha MP recently.

Parth Pawar was elected to the Rajya Sabha with the backing of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP’s strength in the Maharashtra state assembly, where the party has 40 MLAs.