The Maharashtra Legislative Council or Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India.
Maharashtra is India's third largest state by area and has over 112 million inhabitants. Its capital,Mumbai,has a population of approximately 18 million;Nagpur is Maharashtra's second,or winter,capital. Government in the state is organized on the parliamentary system. Power is devolved to large city councils,district councils,subdistrict (taluka) councils,and village parish councils. The numerically strong Maratha–Kunbi community dominates the state's politics. The state has national and regional parties serving different demographics,such as those based on religion,caste,and urban and rural residents.
Achalpur Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the eight which are located in Amravati district.
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.
Sadashiv Kisan Lokhande is a member of the 17th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Shirdi constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena political party. After the split in Shiv Sena,Sadashiv Lokhande left Uddhav Thackeray and went with Eknath Shinde.
Ravi Gangadhar Rana is an Indian independent politician,a 3rd time MLA presently representing the Badnera in Amravati District of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in its 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
Eknath Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician who is serving as the 20th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 30 June 2022. He is also serving as the Leader of Shiv Sena since February 2023 and the Leader of the House,Maharashtra Legislative Assembly since July 2022. He is also the Member of Legislative Assembly for the Kopri-Pachpakhadi constituency of Thane,Maharashtra since 2009 and was formerly the MLA of Thane constituency from 2004 to 2009.
Gulab Raghunath Patil is a politician and incumbent Water supply and Sanitation minister of the Maharashtra state. He is a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA),the state's lower house representing rural Jalgaon constituency. He is a member of Shiv Sena party.
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.
Abdul Sattar Abdul Nabi is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was briefly a minister in 2014 in the Congress government in Maharashtra. In 2019 he left Congress and joined Shiv Sena. He is a three term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Sillod constituency. He served as the state's Cabinet Minister for Animal Husbandry.
Varsha Eknath Gaikwad is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party,who was the Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra from 30 December 2019 to 29 June 2022. She is a four term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing the Dharavi Assembly Constituency in Mumbai,Maharashtra.
The 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election was held on 21 October 2019 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. After a 61.4% turnout in the election,the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (SHS) won a majority. Following differences over the government formation,the alliance was dissolved,precipitating a political crisis.
Rajkumar Dayaram Patel is an Indian politician in the Prahar Janshakti Party. He was elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Melghat on 24 October 2019. Three time MLA,elected from the tribal Korku community from the Melghat Region,he is one of the most popular leaders of the district,known for his direct action plan with the Forest Department and Local Administration. He is the son of the late MLA Dayaram Patel,senior congress leader 2nd Vidhan Sabha 1967. He entered into politics after his graduation from Amravati University and contested his first MLA election in 1995 on a BSP ticket and lost by a very small margin. He ran again in the 1999 contested election on a BJP ticket and won with a high vote difference defending senior Congress Leader late Ramu Patel,and had another victory in 2004. He lost twice consecutively in 2009 and 2014. Highly involved in public activities and social welfare,people gave him another chance in 2019,where he got his highest victory ever,won by 50,000 votes on a Prahar Janshakti Party ticket.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi or Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi or,abbreviated as MVA,is a state-level political coalition consists of 10 Political Parties Reformed 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.
2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election is scheduled to be held in or before October 2024 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
The 2022 Maharashtra political crisis began on 21 June 2022 in the Indian state of Maharashtra when Eknath Shinde,along with several other MLAs of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition moved to Surat in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-governed Gujarat,throwing the coalition into a crisis.
The Members of 14th Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra were elected in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election,with results announced on 24 October 2019.
Eknath Shinde was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on 30 June 2022,on resignation of his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray. Shinde leads a government consisting of Shiv Sena,the NCP and the BJP.
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) (IAST:Śhiva Sēnā(Ud'dhava bāḷāsāhēba ṭhākarē);lit. 'Army of Shivaji,led by Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray';abbr.SS (UBT)) is a Hindutva-based,Marathi regionalist,nationalist political party formed in 2022 under the leadership of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra,Uddhav Thackeray.
The Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena was a Hindu nationalist political party in India formed in 2022 and dissolved in 2023 under the leadership of Eknath Shinde,as a result of a split in the Shiv Sena. After the split,the Election Commission of India (ECI) allotted the party a new symbol as the main Shiv Sena's symbol was frozen. On 17 February 2023,the ECI granted the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena the party name and symbol,the Shiv Sena and the Bow and Arrow,respectively.
