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 .

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.

In 1991, he became the defence minister of India.

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