Sharad Govindrao Pawar is an Indian politician who serves as the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on three separate occasions and held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minister of Agriculture in the Government of India. Pawar hails from the town of Baramati in the Pune district of Maharashtra. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha where he leads the NCP delegation. He holds a position of prominence in national politics as well as the regional politics of Maharashtra.
The Government of Maharashtra is the government for the state of Maharashtra in Western India. It is an elected government with 288 MLAs elected to the legislative assembly for a five-year term. Maharashtra has a bicameral legislature i.e. it consists of two houses: Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad. As is the case in a parliamentary system, the government is formed by the party, alliance or group of assembly members who command the majority, in the lower house. The leader of the majority in lower house becomes the Chief Minister and selects the cabinet members, from either lower (or) upper house. If one becomes CM or minister without being an MLA or MLC, he/she must become either of one within next 6 months. From the formation of the state in 1960, the Congress party or Congress-led alliance have ruled the state for the major part. Non-Congress government was first formed in 1978, then in 1995 with Shivsena-BJP alliance, and most recently in 2014 with a BJP-led alliance.
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve represents Bhartiya Janata Party in 16th Lok Sabha & currently Maharashtra President Bhartiya Janata Party. During the general elections that were held in May 2014, Raosaheb Danve-Patil won the Jalna constituency for the fourth time. Immediately afterwards, he was sworn in by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the Minister of State for Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, the position he held till March 2015.
Nitin Jairam Gadkari (; is an Indian politician and the current Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in the Government of India. Gadkari earlier served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2010-2013. He is also known for the works during his tenure as a Public Works Department Minister in the state of Maharashtra when he constructed a series of roads, highways and flyovers across the state including the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, India's first six-lane concrete, high-speed, access controlled tolled expressway.
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao is an Indian politician from Telangana, currently serving as Governor of Maharashtra. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he had served as a Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government from 1999. He was elected to 12th and 13th Lok Sabha from Karimnagar.
Ashok Shankarrao Chavan is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress party, who has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra state from 8 December 2008 to 9 November 2010. He earlier also served as Minister for Cultural Affairs, Industries, Mines and Protocol in the Vilasrao Deshmukh government.
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.
Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Buldhana constituency of Maharashtra state and is a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party. He defeated Dr. Rajendra Shingne of Nationalist Congress Party in the 15th Lok Sabha elections. Before becoming MP he has held various posts from Sarpanch to MLA. He was also the state minister in Sena BJP government.he is chairmen of sharngdhar sugar mills. Prior to contesting the 15th Lok Sabha elections, he was a member of the legislative assembly of Maharashtra from Mehkar constituency from 2004-2009.
Gajanan Kirtikar is Leader of Shivsena and a Member of Parliament from North West Mumbai Loksabha constituency in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He has been a Member of Legeslative from Malad assembly constituency in Mumbai from 1990 to 2009. He was state minister for home in Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party Government.
Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis is an Indian politician and 18th, incumbent Chief Minister of Maharashtra holding the office from 31 October 2014. A member of Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, at the age of 44, he became the second youngest Chief Minister of Maharashtra after Sharad Pawar. Fadnavis represents the Nagpur South West constituency in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
A legislative assembly election was held on 15 October 2014, in a single phase, to select the 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in India. The result was announced on 19 October, with the BJP getting a plurality.
Chintaman Vanaga was an Indian politician from Maharashtra and was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was member of 16th Lok Sabha elected from Palghar. He was an advocate by qualification from Mumbai University and served as the President of BJP's Thane district office from 1990 to 1996. He died on January 30, 2018 due to a heart attack.
Rajan Vichare is an Indian politician and a Shiv Sena member of parliament representing Thane, Maharashtra in the 16th Lok Sabha. He has also previously been a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2009-14.
Ashok Nete is member of the 16th Lok Sabha from Gadchiroli–Chimur in Maharashtra state of India associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly twice: 1999-2004 and 2004-2009.
Vinayak Raut is a Shiv Sena politician from Vile Parle, Mumbai in the Maharashtra state of India. Raut represents Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency in the 16th Lok Sabha. He was previously elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Vile-Parle 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 Assembly. Raut was elected as MP for Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency in the 2014 elections.
Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav commonly known as Bandu Jadhav Or Bandu Boss (b 1967) is a politician from Parbhani in the Maharashtra state of India. He was elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Parbhani for 2009-2014 as a Shiv Sena candidate. He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Parbhani constituency as a candidate from Shiv Sena, a part of National Democratic Alliance.
Sadashiv Kisan Lokhande is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Shirdi constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena political party.
Balasaheb Shivram Bharde (1912–2006), also known as Trimbak, was an Indian independence activist, social worker, educationist and the speaker of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He was known for his contributions to the cooperative movement in Maharashtra as the Minister of Co-operation (1957–1962). He was associated with several social and government organizations such as Khadi Gramodhyog, Harijan Sevak Sangh and Maharashtra Gandhi Smarak Nidhi (MGSN) and served as the chairman of the first named and as the second president of the MGS Nidhi. He also chaired the Maharashtra State Khadi Board.