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Sharad Pawar

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Image:Sharad Pawar.jpg frame|Sharad Pawar '''Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar''' (born December 12, 1940) Maratha strongman and 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. 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. In 1991, he became the Defence Minister of India. He is currently the Minister for Agriculture and Food at Centre. On November 29, 2005, he was elected President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

External links

- Rediff.com article on Sharad Pawar (dated April 2004)
- Photos of Sharad Pawar
- Biography on sharadpawar.com

Further reading
* P. K. Ravindranath (February 1, 1992) ''Sharad Pawar- the making of a modern maratha'' South Asia Books. ISBN 8185674469 {{start box}} {{succession box| before=Vasantdada Patil| title=Chief Minister of Maharashtra| years=18 Jul 1978 – 17 Feb 1980| after=A R Antule }} {{succession box| before=Shankarrao Chavan| title=Chief Minister of Maharashtra| years=26 Jun 1988 – 25 Jun 1991| after=Sudhakarrao Naik }} {{succession box| before=Sudhakarrao Naik| title=Chief Minister of Maharashtra| years=6 Mar 1993 – 14 Mar 1995| after=Manohar Joshi }} {{end box}} Category:1940 births Pawar,Sharad Category:Living people Pawar,Sharad Category:Indian politicians Pawar,Sharad Category:Chief Ministers of Maharashtra Category:Maharashtra politicians Category:Nationalist Congress Party sv:Sharad Pawar

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