Sharad Pawar

Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar (born December 12, 1940) is president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he formed in 1999 in India. He is a former member of the Indian National Congress party who was expelled from the party for raising the question of foreign origin of Sonia Gandhi. He has a prominent place in Indian national politics as well as regional politics of Maharashtra. He is from the town of Baramati.

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He entered the Maharashtra legislative assembly for the first time in 1967 from Baramati. In 1978, he toppled the Congress government in Maharashtra led by Vasantdada Patil and formed a government in coalition with the Janata Party under the banner of the Progressive Democratic Front. Vasantdada Patil was the political mentor of Sharad Pawar and this act came to haunt Pawar on several occasions in his political career.

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In 1991, he became the Defence Minister of India. He is currently the Minister for Agriculture and Food at Centre.

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