Dnyaneshwar Katke (born 1977), [1] alias Mauli Aba Katke, is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is a Member of 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Shirur Assembly constituency in Pune District. He won the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election representing the Nationalist Congress Party. [2] [3]
Katke is from Shirur, Pune District, Maharashtra. He is the son of Pandharinath Kisanrao Katke. He passed Class 12 in 1995 at Shri Shivaji Maratha Memorial of Society, Pune, Maharashtra. [1]
Katke won from Shirur Assembly constituency representing the Nationalist Congress Party in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He polled 192,281 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Ashok Raosaheb Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (SP), by a margin of 74,550 votes. [4] [5] [6] He was a former district president of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) party and he joined the Nationalist Congress Party just before the elections in October 2024. [7]
Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar is an Indian politician. He served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for four terms and in the Union Council of Ministers as the Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of P.V. Narsimha Rao as well as the 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 faction of the NCP was split by his nephew, Ajit Pawar. He leads his faction of the NCP 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.
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The Peasants and Workers Party of India (PWP) is a Marxist political party in Maharashtra, India. The party was founded in 1948, having its roots from the pre-Independence period and has around 10,000 members. The influence of the party is largely limited to three districts. The party was founded in Maharashtra by Keshavrao Jedhe of Pune, Shankarrao More, Bhausaheb Raut of Mumbai, Nana Patil of Satara, Tulshidas Jadhav of Solapur, Dajiba Desai of Belgaum, Madhavrao Bagal of Kolhapur, P K Bhapkar and Datta Deshmukh of Ahmednagar, Vithalrao Hande and others.
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