Ramdas Gangaram Kadam is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was Member of the Legislative Assembly from Khed Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ratnagiri District,Maharashtra,India as a member of Shiv Sena. He has been elected consecutively for 4 terms in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for 1990,1995,1999 and 2004. He got elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Shiv Sena Party in Jan. 2010. He was Cabinet Minister of Environment in Maharashtra State Government and guardian minister of Nanded district.
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.
Guhagar Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.
Sunil Prabhu is an Indian politician belonging to the Shiv Sena (UBT). He is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Dindoshi Assembly Constituency. He was the 74th mayor of the city of Mumbai,the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra,and chief of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation,the country's richest municipal body.He got ticket for 4th time from Dindoshi Assembly to contest against Sanjay Nirupam of shivsena in 2024 vidhan Sabha elections.
Vinayak Raut is an Indian politician &former 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.
Dadaji Dagadu Bhuse is a member of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Malegaon Outer Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Shiv Sena. It is Bhuse's fourth term as Member of Legislative Assembly. In December 2014,he was appointed Minister of State for Co-operation.
Ravindra Waikar is a Shiv Sena politician from Maharashtra. He is a Member of Parliament from Mumbai North West. He was also a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Jogeshwari East Assembly Constituency. He has been elected to Vidhan Sabha for three consecutive terms in 2009,2014 and 2019. He was appointed Maharashtra's minister of state,Higher &Technical Education in December 2014. He was given the Housing,Higher &Technical Education portfolio. He was also given responsibility of being guardian minister of Ratnagiri district.
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 five consecutive terms in 2004,2009,2014,2019 and 2024.
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 Vijay Naik is a Shiv Sena (UBT) 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.
Sanjay Pandurang Shirsat is an Indian politician serving as MLA in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Aurangabad West Vidhan Sabha constituency as a member of Shiv Sena. He has been elected to Vidhan Sabha for four consecutive terms in 2009,2014,2019 and 2024
Krishnarao Patil is a Nationalist Congress Party politician from Mudal,Bhudargad Tehsil,Kolhapur district,Maharashtra. He is firstly elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in 2004 as independence against Bajarang Desai,Indian National Congress Party former member of Legislative Assembly. He continued the Legislative Assembly till 2009 for 10 years as firstly elected member in the Radhanagari Constituency.
Yamini Yashwant Jadhav is a Shiv Sena politician from Mumbai,Maharashtra. She is current Member of Legislative Assembly from Byculla Vidhan Sabha constituency as a member of Shiv Sena.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi,is a state-level political alliance of centre to centre-left political parties in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is one of the two major political alliances in Maharashtra. The alliance was formed under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray of SHS (UBT),Sharad Pawar of the NCP(SP) and Sonia Gandhi of the INC,along with the support from the PWPI,CPI(M) and several other political parties. MVA is currently the official opposition in Maharashtra Legislature. Most of the MVA constituents are members of the Indian National Congress-led Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance at pan-India level. The MVA suffered a setback in 2024,when it could only win 50 seats in the assembly elections,with none of the parties even managing to get the number of seats to have a leader of opposition in the assembly. This stripped its status as the official opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Manjula Tulshiram Gavit is a politician from Dhule district,Maharashtra. She is current Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Sakri Vidhan Sabha constituency as an independent member. After elected she joined Shiv Sena in Presence of Udhav Thackeray. Post-Shiv Sena 2022 split,she joined Shiv Sena on 10/08/2024 in Dhule in presence of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
The 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election was held on 20 November 2024 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly to elect 288 members of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. The turnout for the election was 66.05%,the highest since 1995. The ruling Maha Yuti won a landslide victory,winning 235 seats and none of the parties in the Maha Vikas Aghadi had sufficient seats to get the position of leader of opposition,the first time in six decades this has occurred. The elections were held under first-past-the-post voting.
Aamshya Phulji Padavi is an Indian politician from Nandurbar district,Maharashtra. He is current member of Maharashtra Legislative Council. After unsuccessfully contesting the assembly polls from the Akkalkuwa assembly segment in 2014,2019,he won the 2024 Assembly election by a margin of 2,904 votes.
Shekhar Govindrao Nikam is a leader of Nationalist Congress Party and a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elected from Chiplun Assembly constituency in Ratnagiri city. He is the son of former Member of Parliament Govindrao Nikam,who represented Ratnagiri Loksabha Constituency from 1989 to 1996.
Babaji Ramchandra Kale is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is a member of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Khed Alandi Assembly constituency in Pune District. He won the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election representing the Shiv Sena (UBT).
Shiv Sena