Antony, Sharad Pawar, Dev Kant Baruah, Priyaranjan Das Munshi, Sarat Chandra Sinha, K. P. Unnikrishnan and Mohammad Yunus Saleem.
[1] He became the youngest chief minister of Maharashtra by toppling the Vasantdada Patil-led Congress government in 1978.
In 1980, after Indira Gandhi swept the Lok Sabha polls, Pawar's state government was dismissed.
Again in 1985, Pawar's party the Indian National Congress (Socialist) won only 54 seats and he became the Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra.
With the split and the decline of the Janata Party nationally, Pawar soon realised that he can't get back to power in Maharashtra on his own.