The sudden death of an influential leader has left a political vacuum in India's richest state. Ajit Pawar, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, died on Wednesday in a plane crash along with four others. Maharashtra's political landscape is notoriously complex - a web of shifting alliances, regional loyalties and rivalries. And for decades, Ajit Pawar navigated it with a mixture of pragmatism and shrewdness, swiftly rising through the ranks. Yet, beneath the public triumphs, his journey