Amol Dhondibaba Khatal (born 1983) [1] is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is an MLA from Sangamner Assembly constituency in Ahmednagar District. He won the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election representing the Shiv Sena Party. [2]
Khatal is from Sangamner, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra. He is the son of Dhondiba Kisan Khatal. He completed his B.Com. in 2019 at Yashwantrao Chavhan Mukt Vidyapith, Nashik. Earlier, he did his schooling at Nutan Secondary and Higher Secondary School, Rajapur. [1]
Khatal won from Sangamner Assembly constituency representing the Shiv Sena in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He polled 112,386 votes and defeated his nearest rival, former minister and eight time MLA, Balasaheb Bhausaheb Thorat of the Indian National Congress, by a margin of 10,560 votes. [3] [4] [5] Khatal, a first time MLA, is a leader of the youth wing and the constituency was considered a bastion of Balasaheb Thorat. [6]
Vijay Bhausaheb Thorat, known popularly as Balasaheb Thorat, is an Indian politician who served as the revenue minister in Maharashtra state. He also served as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Thorat is a senior member of the Congress Party. He is an MLA from Sangamner constituency.
Although a parliamentary democracy, Indian politics has increasingly become dynastic, possibly due to the absence of a party organization, independent civil society associations that mobilize support for the party, and centralized financing of elections. Family members have also led the Congress party for most of the period since 1978 when Indira Gandhi floated the then Congress(I) faction of the party. It also is fairly common in many political parties in Maharashtra. The dynastic phenomenon is seen from national level down to district level and even village level.The three-tier structure of Panchayati Raj established in the 1960s also helped to create and consolidate the dynastic phenomenon in rural areas. Apart from government, political families also control cooperative institutions, mainly cooperative sugar factories, district cooperative banks in the state, and since the 1980s private for profit colleges. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party also features several senior leaders who are dynasts. In Maharashtra, the NCP has particularly high level of dynasticism.
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