Chairman of the Reception Committee of the All-India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Karad in December 1975.
Visits Turkey and Algeria in 1976.
Leader of Opposition in Loksabha in 1977-78.
Joins Sanjiv Reddi Congress following differences with Smt. Indira Gandhi in 1978.
Appointed Deputy Prime Minister and I Home Minister in the coalition Government of Shri Charan Singh in July 1979.
Elected to Loksabha from Satara constituency in 1980 (only victorious candidate of Reddi Congress in Maharashtra).
Re-entry into Congress-I. Appointed Chairman of the Eighth Finance Commission.
Bereavement following the sudden death of Smt. Venutai Chavan, on June 1983.
Breathes his last at Delhi at 7-45 p.m. on 25 November 1984.
Cremated at the ‘Priti Sangam’ of Krishna-Koyna on 27 November 1984 at 3-40 p.m. at Karad.
His autobiographical book Krishnakath is awarded the Sahityasamarat N. C. Kelkar Prize in 1984.
Given posthumous award ‘Samajik Nyay Puraskar’ on behalf of the Ramshastri Prabhune Pratishthan of Kshetra Mahuli (Satara dist.) on 31 May 1986.