Rohit Pawar urges unopposed Baramati bypoll as Sunetra Pawar files nomination

As Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister (CM) Sunetra Pawar prepares to file her nomination for the Baramati bypoll, NCP (SP) leader Rohit Pawar on Monday urged other aspirants to refrain from filing nominations and appealed for the election to be held unopposed.

The April 23 bypoll for the Baramati Assembly seat was necessitated following the death of then Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a plane crash on January 28.

According to party sources, Sunetra Pawar will file her nomination at around 12:30 pm in Baramati in the presence of senior NCP leaders Praful Patel, Sunil Tatkare, Hasan Mushrif, Dattatray Bharne, and BJP minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, PTI reported.

Watch | Sunetra Pawar visits Hanuman temple, pays tribute at Ajit Pawars cremation site Earlier in the day, she visited the Hanuman temple in Kanheri and paid respects at Ajit Pawars cremation site.

Her sons, Jay and Parth Pawar, along with Tatkare, accompanied her. VIDEO | Baramati: Maharashtra Deputy CM and NCP candidate Sunetra Pawar offers prayers at Maruti Rai Temple ahead of filing her nomination. (Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.

co/dv5TRAShcC) pic. twitter. com/sbGTz89jop Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) April 6, 2026 Rohit Pawar, in a post on X, reiterated his appeal for an unopposed election. Today, Sunetra Kaki is filing her nomination for the Baramati Assembly bypoll.

We all wish that the poll should be held unopposed. I urge other aspirants not to file their nomination papers, he said, the news agency reported.

He added that if a contest takes place, the people of Baramati would view it as if Ajit Pawar himself were in the fray and ensure Sunetra Pawars victory by a record margin.