Shiv Sena is a right-wing Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray. Currently led by Eknath Shinde,this party is the ruling party of the Indian state of Maharashtra since 2019. Shiv Sena's election symbol is the Bow and Arrow. It uses the saffron colour in its flag and a image of a roaring tiger.
Sharad Govindrao Pawar is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for four terms and has also served in the Union Council Of Ministers as the Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of P.V Narsimha Rao and Minister of Agriculture in the Cabinet of Manmohan Singh. He is the first and former president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),which he founded in 1999,after separating from the Indian National Congress. His NCP was split by his own nephew,Ajit Pawar. He leads the his facation NCP delegation in the Rajya Sabha,the upper chamber of the Indian parliament. He is the chairperson of Maha Vikas Aghadi,a regional Maharashtra-based political alliance.
The Nationalist Congress Party is one of the state parties in India. It refers to the Ajit Pawar faction after the 2023 split in the party when the SC granted the original party name and symbol to the Nationalist Congress Party. It was one of the major political parties in Maharashtra and was a recognised state party in Nagaland and Kerala. In July 2023,majority of the elected MLAs and MLCs of the party led by Ajit Pawar joined the National Democratic Alliance government,however,all MPs except two are expected to remain loyal to Sharad Pawar. This caused a direct split between the Ajit Pawar-led NCP Faction and the Founder and President of the party Sharad Pawar.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a centre-right to right-wing conservative Indian political alliance led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was founded in 1998 and currently controls the government of India as well as the government of 17 Indian states and one Union territory.
Narayan Tatu Rane is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He currently serves as Minister of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises in the Second Modi ministry. He has previously held Cabinet Ministry positions for Industry,Port,Employment and Self-employment;Revenue;and Industry in the Government of Maharashtra.
Anandrao Vithoba Adsul was a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Amravati constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party. He had represented the Amravati constituency in 15th Lok Sabha and Buldhana constituency of Maharashtra in the 14th Lok Sabha,13th Lok Sabha and 11th Lok Sabha.
Anand Prakash Paranjpe is an Industrialist and an elected member of the 15th Lok Sabha elections from Kalyan in Maharashtra,then representing the Shiv Sena Party. He joined Nationalist Congress Party before 2014 general elections.
Abdul Rahman Antulay was an Indian politician. Antulay was a union minister for Minority Affairs and a Member of Parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha of India. Earlier he had been the Chief Minister of the state of Maharashtra,but was forced to resign after being convicted by the Bombay High Court on charges that he had extorted money for a trust fund he managed. Later,the Supreme Court of India gave him clean chit in that case.
Ratnagiri–Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the Presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Nilesh Rane of the Indian National Congress. As of the 2014 elections,its current MP is Vinayak Raut of Shiv Sena.
Maval Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Gajanan Babar of Shiv Sena. As of the 2014 elections,its current MP is Shrirang Barne now of Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena.
Raigad Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. It is a new constituency,created in 2008 as a part of the implementation of the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. The constituency first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament was Anant Geete of Shiv Sena who was also re-elected in the 2014 elections. In the 2019 General Elections Sunil Tatkare of NCP won the seat by margin of 31,438 votes defeating the incumbent Geetee who was also a Union Cabinet minister.
Guhagar Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.
Gajanan Kirtikar is Leader of Shivsena and a Member of Parliament (MP) from Mumbai North West in Mumbai,Maharashtra,India. He has been a Member of Legislative Assembly from Malad assembly constituency in Mumbai from 1990 to 2009. He was state minister for home in Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party Government.
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.
Vinayak Raut is an Indian politician serving as the Member of Parliament,Loksabha. He is leader of Shiv Sena in Lok Sabha representing Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency in the 17th Lok Sabha. Originally from Mumbai,Raut was previously elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Vile Parle of Mumbai for 1999-2004 as a Shiv Sena candidate. He was also elected as a member of Maharashtra Legislative Council from Shiv Sena Party in 2012. He resigned on 27 May 2014 from the Maharashtra Legislative Council. Raut was elected as MP for Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency since the 2014 elections.
Arvind Ganpat Sawant is an Indian politician from the Shiv Sena UBT party. He had been the Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises since 2019 and a Member of Lok Sabha since 2014. On 11 November 2019,Sawant quit as union minister in Modi government due to ongoing power tussle between Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena in follow up to 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election.
Uday Samant is an Indian politician and leader of Shiv Sena from Maharashtra. He is Cabinet Minister of Ministry of Industries (Maharashtra). He is current Member of Legislative Assembly from Ratnagiri. He has been elected to Vidhan Sabha for four consecutive terms in 2004,2009,2014 and 2019.
Rajan Salvi is a Shiv Sena politician from Ratnagiri district,Maharashtra. He is current Member of Legislative Assembly from Rajapur Vidhan Sabha constituency of Konkan,Maharashtra,India as a member of Shiv Sena. He has been elected for three consecutive terms in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for 2009,2014 and 2019.
Vaibhav Naik is a Shiv Sena politician from Sindhudurg district,Maharashtra. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly from Kudal Vidhan Sabha constituency of Konkan,Maharashtra,India as a member of Shiv Sena. He defeated then Industries Minister Narayan Rane in 2014 assembly polls by a margin of 10,376 votes.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi or Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi,abbreviated as MVA,is a state-level political coalition formed after the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray of SHS (UBT),then Shiv Sena,Sharad Pawar of the NCP and Sonia Gandhi of the INC,along with the support from the Samajwadi Party,PWPI,CPI(M) and several other political parties including Independent MLAs. MVA is currently the official opposition in Maharashtra Legislature.
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