New Delhi: Sunetra Pawar, first woman deputy CM of Maharashtra: What's her net worth? Gold, bonds, properties worth ₹130 crore+
Sunetra Pawar, Rajya Sabha member and leader of Nationalist Congress Party, has become the first female deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. She succeeds her late husband, Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash earlier this week.
Sunetra Pawar, daughter of former Maharashtra minister Padamsinh Bajirao Patil, unsuccessfully fought the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. She was then sent to the Rajya Sabha by her party and the state’s ruling alliance in July 2025.
Elected now by NCP MLAs as their leader, Pawar will be sworn in at 5 pm today. She has six months to become a state legislator.
As per the affidavit filed by her ahead of the Lok Sabha election in 2024, Sunetra Pawar’s total income was ₹4,22,21,010 or ₹4.2 crore. This is according to the Income Tax Return filed for the financial year 2022-23.
Further, her assets, including movable and immovable property were recorded at ₹ 1,27,59,98,205 ( ₹127 crore). Among these assets, movable assets accounted for ₹30.3 crore, while immovable assets disclosed by her were worth ₹97 crore.
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Among jewellery, silver utensils of 35kg accounted for ₹24 lakh as per estimates at the time; 1,030 gm gold ornaments accounted for ₹51 lakh as per 2024 value, and 28-karat diamond jewellery was valued at ₹24 lakh.
Other assets, such as interests and values of claims, were disclosed as ₹8.4 crore.
Sunetra held shares in several companies as per the 2024 affidavit, including Baramati Agro Ltd Equity Shares, Venkeys (India) Limited, VIA Creations Pvt Ltd and Baramati Urban Co Op Bank Ltd.
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In terms of immovable assets, Sunetra Pawar held ₹13 crore worth of agricultural land and ₹37 crore worth of non-agricultural land.
Her residential buildings included a flat worth ₹4 crore at the Jhiroji Apartment in Kalyani Nagar and a flat worth ₹10 crore at Sindh Housing Society in Pune. She also owned two other properties, with one in Mumbai’s Shubhada Apartment. The total worth of her residential buildings was ₹35 crore, as per the affidavit.
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