Solapur: Ganpatrao Annasaheb Deshmukh, India’s second longest serving MLA and senior leader of the Farmers and Workers’ Party (PWP), who passed away on Friday, was cremated with full state honors at Sangola here on Saturday afternoon. Official sources gave this information.
His family said that 95-year-old Deshmukh breathed his last at a private hospital after a brief illness.
As his mortal remains were taken from Solapur to Sangola this morning, thousands of people, including farmers and laborers, queued up on the streets with moist eyes, shouting slogans to bid their last farewell.Ganpatrao Deshmukh, Are immortal’.
In Sangola, where his body draped in the national tricolour was laid, thousands of people came to pay their last respects, many with folded hands and caught their last glimpse.
Deshmukh was chosen as the epitome of humility and simplicity. Maharashtra The Legislative Assembly from the Sangola seat has contested a staggering 11 times as a PWP candidate since 1962, without any other party defecting.
He lost the election twice in his seven-decade-long political career – first in 1972 and again in 1995 – a second time to his own grandson but lost by a modest margin of around 190 votes.
However, he comfortably crossed through the so-called ‘BJP-wave’ in 2014, which washed out the 15-year-old Congress-NCP government in the state.
Deshmukh served as a minister for some time in 1978 when Sharad Pawar was the chief minister and later in 1999 for a full term in the government of late CM Vilasrao Deshmukh.
In 2012, the Maharashtra Legislature congratulated him on completing a Golden Jubilee (50 years). Legislator.
In 2019, Ganpatrao Deshmukh stunned political circles by deciding to retire from active and electoral politics primarily on the basis of his advanced age.
That year (2019), the prestigious Sangola seat was won by Shiv Sena’s Shahjibapu R. Patil – who had contested against Deshmukh six times – by defeating Deshmukh’s grandson and PWP candidate Aniket Deshmukh by nearly 750 votes.
Till now, he remains the second longest serving MLA in India behind the record held by the late Tamil Nadu CM and DMK supremo, M Karunanidhi.
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Leaders of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis and Praveen Darekar condoled the death of Deshmukh.
Other top leaders like PWP President Jayant Patil, Shiv Sena Minister Eknath Shinde, NCP President Sharad Pawar, State NCP President and Minister Jayant Patil, Ministers Dilip Walse-Patil, Nawab Malik, Dr Jitendra Awhad, Congress State President Nana Patole, Minister Balasaheb Thorat Ashok Chavan, former CM Prithviraj Chavan, Samajwadi Party President Abu Asim Azmi, leaders of major farmer groups and activist organizations have expressed grief over the death of the veteran leader.
Even social media penned heartfelt tributes to Deshmukh and narrated many tales of his simplicity in public life, his commitment to the same party and ideology, compared to the ‘defections’ who have been in fashion in recent years. .
His family said that 95-year-old Deshmukh breathed his last at a private hospital after a brief illness.
As his mortal remains were taken from Solapur to Sangola this morning, thousands of people, including farmers and laborers, queued up on the streets with moist eyes, shouting slogans to bid their last farewell.Ganpatrao Deshmukh, Are immortal’.
In Sangola, where his body draped in the national tricolour was laid, thousands of people came to pay their last respects, many with folded hands and caught their last glimpse.
Deshmukh was chosen as the epitome of humility and simplicity. Maharashtra The Legislative Assembly from the Sangola seat has contested a staggering 11 times as a PWP candidate since 1962, without any other party defecting.
He lost the election twice in his seven-decade-long political career – first in 1972 and again in 1995 – a second time to his own grandson but lost by a modest margin of around 190 votes.
However, he comfortably crossed through the so-called ‘BJP-wave’ in 2014, which washed out the 15-year-old Congress-NCP government in the state.
Deshmukh served as a minister for some time in 1978 when Sharad Pawar was the chief minister and later in 1999 for a full term in the government of late CM Vilasrao Deshmukh.
In 2012, the Maharashtra Legislature congratulated him on completing a Golden Jubilee (50 years). Legislator.
In 2019, Ganpatrao Deshmukh stunned political circles by deciding to retire from active and electoral politics primarily on the basis of his advanced age.
That year (2019), the prestigious Sangola seat was won by Shiv Sena’s Shahjibapu R. Patil – who had contested against Deshmukh six times – by defeating Deshmukh’s grandson and PWP candidate Aniket Deshmukh by nearly 750 votes.
Till now, he remains the second longest serving MLA in India behind the record held by the late Tamil Nadu CM and DMK supremo, M Karunanidhi.
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Leaders of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis and Praveen Darekar condoled the death of Deshmukh.
Other top leaders like PWP President Jayant Patil, Shiv Sena Minister Eknath Shinde, NCP President Sharad Pawar, State NCP President and Minister Jayant Patil, Ministers Dilip Walse-Patil, Nawab Malik, Dr Jitendra Awhad, Congress State President Nana Patole, Minister Balasaheb Thorat Ashok Chavan, former CM Prithviraj Chavan, Samajwadi Party President Abu Asim Azmi, leaders of major farmer groups and activist organizations have expressed grief over the death of the veteran leader.
Even social media penned heartfelt tributes to Deshmukh and narrated many tales of his simplicity in public life, his commitment to the same party and ideology, compared to the ‘defections’ who have been in fashion in recent years. .
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