Purno Agitok Sangma was an Indian politician who has served as the 4th Chief Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990 and the 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. He served as a member of the Lok Sabha from Tura in Meghalaya from 2014 to 2016,1991 to 2008 and from 1977 to 1989 and the minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Rao ministry from 1995 to 1996. He was the founder of National People's Party and co-founder of Nationalist Congress Party.
Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Maharashtra twice from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 26 June 1988. He was the finance minister of India from 1988 to 1989 in Rajiv Gandhi ministry. He also served as the home minister of India twice,from 31 December 1984 to 12 March 1986 in the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet,and from 21 June 1991 to 16 May 1996 in the P. V. Narasimha Rao cabinet.
Murli Deora was an Indian politician,businessman,and social worker. He was the Mayor of Mumbai,a Member of Parliament in both the Upper and Lower Houses,and a Minister of Cabinet rank. He was a member of the Indian National Congress.
Kirit Somaiya is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who represented Mumbai North-East in the 16th Lok Sabha and the 13th Lok Sabha. He is currently appointed as the vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party's Maharashtra unit.
Praful Manoharbhai Patel is an Indian politician,industrialist and sports administrator. He is associated with the Nationalist Congress Party.
Sumitra Mahajan is an Indian politician who was the Speaker of Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament from 2014 to 2019. She belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party. She represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh from 1989 to 2019 as the longest serving Woman Member of Parliament.
Ramesh Bais is an Indian politician and is the 23rd governor of Maharashtra since 2023. He also served as the governor of Jharkhand from 2021 to 2023 and the governor of Tripura from 2019 to 2021. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has served as union minister of state for environment and forests in the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Bais has been elected seven times to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament,representing the Raipur constituency,including serving as a member of the 9th Lok Sabha (1989) and 11th to 16th Lok Sabha (1996–2019).
Paty Ripple Kyndiah was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress party who served as a member of the 12th,13th and 14th Lok Sabha representing the Shillong constituency of Meghalaya. He served as the Minister of Tribal Affairs between 2004 and 2009 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Selja Kumari is an Indian politician and a Member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of Indian parliament. She is a member of the Indian National Congress and has served as the Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment and Tourism during Manmohan Singh's premiership.
Manikrao Hodlya Gavit was an Indian politician from Nandurbar district of Maharashtra,India. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC),he represented the Nandurbar constituency from 1980 to 2014,winning the Indian general elections consecutive nine times,marking a record.
Vilas Bhaurao Muttemwar is an Indian politician from Maharashtra belonging to the Indian National Congress who served as a member of the 7th,8th,10th,12th,13th,14th and 15th Lok Sabha representing the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency.
Ramdas Bandu Athawale is an Indian politician,social activist and trade unionist from Maharashtra. He is the president of the Republican Party of India (A),a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar since 1999. Currently,he is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment,Government of India since 2016 and represents Maharashtra in Rajya Sabha,the upper house of India's Parliament since 2014. Previously,he was Lok Sabha MP from Pandharpur from 1999 to 2009 and from Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency from 1998 to 1999. He was also Cabinet minister of Maharashtra from 1990 to 1995 and a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from 1990 to 1996.
Prithviraj Chavan is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Chavan is a graduate of BITS Pilani and University of California,Berkeley in mechanical engineering. He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974. Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean,non-controversial image,a low-profile leader. Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel,Public Grievances,and Pensions. Chavan was also General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC),in-charge of many states,including Jammu and Kashmir,Karnataka,Haryana,Gujarat,Tripura,and Arunachal Pradesh.
Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Ashok Shankarrao Chavan is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is son of ex-Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan. He was one of the most influential leaders of Indian National Congress in Maharashtra but later resigned and joined Bhartiya Janata Party on 13 Feb 2024. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra state from 8 December 2008 to 9 November 2010. Also,he has served as Minister for Cultural Affairs,Industries,Mines and Protocol in the Vilasrao Deshmukh government and he is also the former PWD Minister of Maharashtra.
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.
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.
Arvind Ganpat Sawant is an Indian politician from the Shiv Sena UBT party who have served as Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises from 30 May 2019 to 11 November 2019. He is 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.
Krupal Balaji Tumane is an Indian politician from Nagpur,Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council and former Member Of Parliament Till 2024 who was re-elected in 17th Lok Sabha &was member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Ramtek constituency of Nagpur district,Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena political party.In 2014,He defeated sitting MP and former Cabinet Minister Mukul Wasnik of Indian National Congress Party.
Suresh Ambadasrao Warpudkar is an Indian politician who is the member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2019 from Pathri as an Indian National Congress candidate. He was also a minister of state in Government of Maharashtra and Member of Parliament in 1998 from Parbhani.
