India, May 2 -- Marking her first visit as the guardian minister, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president and deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar on Friday said her priority is to transform Beed into one of Maharashtra's top-performing districts, while carrying forward the vision of her late husband Ajit Pawar.

Sunetra, who assumed office as deputy chief minister on January 31, has been assigned charge of Pune and Beed districts as guardian minister. The portfolio was earlier held by Ajit Pawar, who oversaw development and administrative planning in both districts until he died in a plane crash in Baramati earlier this year.

Beed has remained in focus in recent months following the murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh, an incident tha...