Overview
- Family sources said she died at her Mahim, Mumbai residence after months of ill health, with last rites to be held in Koregaon, Satara.
- Sharad Pawar praised her clear-speaking leadership, while Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Supriya Sule and MP Udayanraje Bhosale offered condolences.
- She rose from the Satara district council to lead the Congress women’s wing, later serving as Sangli MP and as Koregaon MLA from 1999 to 2009.
- During the 1980s she held ministerial posts and played a noted role in the political developments preceding A. R. Antulay’s 1981 resignation as chief minister.
- In later years she advocated Maratha reservation and disputed the Jarandeshwar cooperative sugar factory auction with allegations Ajit Pawar denied.