Baramati, April 12 -- Ahead of the upcoming Assembly by-election campaign for the Baramati constituency, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar on Sunday visited the memorial of the former chief of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Ajit Pawar, in Baramati and offered her respects.

She was accompanied during the visit by her son Jay Pawar, who also paid homage at the memorial.

The bypolls in Pune's Baramati constituency come after the former NCP Chief Ajit Pawar died in a plane crash while he was headed to his constituency earlier this year.

Following his demise, his wife, Sunetra Pawar, was appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of the state and was also named the chief of the NCP.

The by-elections for the Baramati consti...