Ajit Pawar death: Maharashtra ZP, Panchayat Samiti polls to be held as scheduled despite state mourning Ajit Pawar (66) and four other persons on board a chartered aircraft were killed after it crashed barely 200 metres from the edge of a tabletop runway at Baramati airport in Pune district on Wednesday morning. Mumbai:Even as the whole nation is in shock and grief after the death of Ajit Pawar in a plane crash, Maharashtra Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections will be geld as scheduled on February 5 despite the state mourning, State Election Commission said on Wednesday. There is no provision to cancel or defer elections: EC"The declaration of official mourning will have no bearing on the ongoing election process. The three-day mourning in the state will end on January 30, six days ahead of voting. Elections to 125 Panchayat Samitis and 12 Zilla Parishads (ZPs) will be held on February 5 and votes will be counted two days later.