Sharad Pawar
Indian politician
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| 2023 | Pawar retracted his decision to step down, attributing it to the strong sentiments expressed by party workers and leaders. |
| September 1 2023 | Sharad Pawar was appointed a member of the Coordination Committee of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance during its convention held in Mumbai. |
| July 2023 | In July 2023, Ajit Pawar rebelled against Sharad Pawar by joining the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena government and took oath as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, leading to a significant political crisis within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). |
| May 1 2023 | Marked the end of his 65-year public life, spanning from 1 May 1958 to 1 May 2023. |
| May 1 2023 | Pawar announced his decision to step down from his post as chief of NCP and expressed his unwillingness to contest elections in the future. |
| 2022 | Sharad Pawar was honored with the Lokmat Parliamentary lifetime achievement award, presented by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, recognizing his contributions as a parliamentarian. |
| March 2021 | Sharad Pawar underwent surgery for a gallbladder problem. |
| June 2020 | Re-elected to the Rajya Sabha. |
| June 2020 | Pawar was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha. |
| 2019 | In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Pawar's NCP won five seats in Maharashtra, part of a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress party. |
| 2019 | Harvinder Singh, who had slapped Sharad Pawar in 2011, was arrested. |
| November 28 2019 | The NCP came back into power as part of a coalition government with Shiv Sena and Congress, led by Uddhav Thackeray as the new chief minister of Maharashtra. |
| October 2019 | The assembly elections followed the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, during which Pawar was a key campaigner for the NCP-Congress alliance. |
| 2018 | Sharad Pawar requested his party members to honor him with the pagadi (turban) of social reformer Mahatma Phule, instead of the traditional Puneri Pagadi, in a move that sparked controversy and criticism regarding perceived anti-Brahmin sentiments. |
| 2017 | The Indian government conferred the Padma Vibhushan upon Pawar, recognizing his contributions with the second-highest civilian honour of India. |
| May 2017 | Pawar ruled out being a candidate for the June 2017 Indian presidential election. |
| January 2017 | Pawar completed his term as the president of the Mumbai Cricket Association. |
| 2014 | Pawar lost his ministerial position following the BJP-led NDA's defeat of the ruling UPA government in the general elections. |
| 2014 | Pawar's NCP lost power in Maharashtra after the assembly elections. |
| April 2014 | Elected to the Rajya Sabha for a six-year term after losing his ministerial position in the general elections. |
| April 2014 | Sharad Pawar was elected to the Rajya Sabha for a six-year term. |
| 2013 | Sharad Pawar acknowledged that farmer suicides were a serious issue and noted multiple contributing factors, announcing that the government would increase investment in agriculture and raise minimum prices of crops to enhance farmers' income. |
| October 2013 | Pawar was appointed as the president of the Mumbai Cricket Association. |
| 2012 | Pawar's ministry initiated a series of government inquiries to investigate the causes of farmers' suicides in India. |
| 2012 | Pawar completed his term as president of the International Cricket Council (ICC). |
| 2012 | Sharad Pawar resigned from the chairmanship of the Empowered Group of Ministers investigating the 2G spectrum case shortly after his appointment, due to concerns about being linked to the controversy. |
| January 2012 | Sharad Pawar announced he would not contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to make way for young leadership. |
| 2011 | Sharad Pawar declared his assets to be worth a significant amount, providing transparency regarding his financial status. |
| 2011 | Nira Radia alleged to the Central Bureau of Investigation that agriculture minister Sharad Pawar may be controlling DB Realty and suggested he might have communicated with former telecom minister A. Raja regarding the allocation of spectrum to Swan Telecom, which Pawar denied. |
| 2011 | Sharad Pawar decided to resign from the committee reviewing the draft of the anti-corruption Lokpal bill after facing criticism from anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare. |
| November 24 2011 | Sharad Pawar was slapped by a youth named Harvinder Singh while leaving a literary function at the New Delhi Municipal Corporation centre. The attacker, who had previously assaulted former telecom minister Sukh Ram, was later arrested. |
| 2010 | Pawar was elected as the president of the International Cricket Council (ICC). |
| August 2010 | In August 2010, the Bombay High Court stated that there was 'nothing on record' to indicate that Union Minister Sharad Pawar influenced the Maharashtra government's decision to exempt IPL matches from entertainment tax. |
| February 2010 | After the bombing of the German Bakery in Pune, Sharad Pawar made comments that appeared to downplay the gravity of the incident, suggesting that it was an isolated event and recalling his experience as Chief Minister during the 11 simultaneous blasts in Mumbai. |
| January 2010 | In January 2010, it was alleged by Shiv Sena MLA Subhash Desai that the state cabinet decided to impose a tax on the Indian Premier League (IPL) before the season started, but the decision was not implemented due to Shiv Sena's claims regarding Sharad Pawar's association with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). |
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