Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Friday said the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will hold a legislature party meeting on January 31 to appoint Sunetra Pawar, wife of late Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, as its leader. Speaking to reporters at the NCP office, Bhujbal said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has indicated he has no objection to Sunetra Pawar’s oath-taking as deputy chief minister on Saturday itself, provided the legislature wing of the party formally takes a decision. Sunetra Pawar is currently a Rajya Sabha MP and is not a member of either House of the Maharashtra legislature. However, the Baramati Assembly seat in Pune district has fallen vacant following Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash on Wednesday.