Nationalist Congress Party

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Nationalist Congress Party
AbbreviationNCP
President Ajit Pawar
Spokesperson Sana Malik Shaikh
Lok Sabha  Leader Sunil Tatkare
Rajya Sabha  Leader Praful Patel
Sunetra Pawar
Founder Sharad Pawar
P. A. Sangma
Tariq Anwar
Founded10 June 1999(25 years ago) (1999-06-10)
Split from Indian National Congress
Headquarters10, Bishmabhar Marg, New Delhi, India-110001
Student wing NCP Student's Wing
Youth wing NCP Youth's Wing
Women's wing NCP Women Wing
Ideology Liberal conservatism
Secularism [1]
Indian nationalism
Economic Liberalism
Political position Centre-right
Colours  Pink (post–2023) [2]
  Pacific Blue (pre–2023)
ECI Status State Party [3]
Alliance
Seats in  Lok Sabha
1 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
3 / 245
Seats in  State Legislative Assemblies
Indian states
41 / 288
(Maharashtra)
Seats in  Maharashtra Legislative Council
8 / 78
Number of states and union territories in government
3 / 31
Election symbol
Clock symbol of NCP.png
Party flag
Flag of Nationalist Congress Party.svg
Website
ncponline.in

The Nationalist Congress Party is one of the state parties in India [4] [5] and is one of the major political parties in Maharashtra with a recognised state party status in Nagaland and Kerala. [6] The party has its presence in legislative assemblies of Maharashtra, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh, with being in the governing coalition in all of these states. Besides this, the party is also part of the current governing coalition National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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The original incarnation of the party was founded in 1999 by Sharad Pawar, P.A. Sangma, and Tariq Anwar after a split within the Congress. After major disagreements between top party leaders in 2023, a split between the party occurred. This resulted in two major faction emerging, one led by the founder president Sharad Pawar and the other led by Ajit Pawar. [7] [6] After a legal battle, the Supreme Court of India gave judgement in favour of the faction led by Ajit Pawar, and was allocated the party symbol and name. Subsequently, the Sharad Pawar led faction formed the NCP (SP). Under the leadership of Ajit Pawar, the NCP revamped itself and adopted the color pink to associate with the party. [8] [9]

The Nagaland state unit which was supporting the NDPP-BJP state government and the Jharkhand state unit of the party went with the Ajit Pawar-led NCP while the Kerala state unit of the party which was a part of the Left Democratic Front went with the Sharad Pawar-led NCP(SP).

Party history and performance

First incarnation led by Sharad Pawar

Split from Congress

The NCP was formed on 10 June 1999, by Sharad Pawar, P. A. Sangma, and Tariq Anwar after they were expelled from the Indian National Congress on 20 May 1999, for disputing the right of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi to lead the party. [10] [11] [12] When the NCP formed, the Indian Congress (Socialist) – Sarat Chandra Sinha party merged into the new party. [13]

In government

Despite the NCP being founded on opposition to the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, the party joined the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to form the government of Maharashtra in October 1999. In 2004, the party joined the UPA to form the national government led by Manmohan Singh. The NCP's leader, Sharad Pawar served as the Minister of Agriculture for both five-year terms of the Singh-led government. The party remained part of the Congress-led Maharashtra state government until 2014. [14] On 20 June 2012, P. A. Sangma left the NCP to contest the presidential election, which he lost. [15]

In opposition

In the April and May 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the UPA lost to the rival National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by Narendra Modi and the NCP was out of government for the first time in ten years. The NCP broke its alliance with the Congress Party just before the October 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections to contest them on its own. [16] In the assembly election the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the largest party and formed a minority government, initially with support from the NCP.

In April 2019, voting took place for the 48 Lok Sabha seats from Maharashtra. The Congress and NCP had a seat-sharing arrangement. [17] Similarly, despite their differences, the BJP and Shiv Sena once again contested the elections together under the NDA banner. [18] [19] The election was another landslide victory for the NDA, with the BJP and Shiv Sena winning 23 and 18 seats, respectively, out of the total of the state's 48 Lok Sabha seats. The Congress Party won only one seat in the state whereas the NCP won five seats from its stronghold of western Maharashtra. [20]

Formation of Maharashtra Vikash Aghadi and subsequent split

During the October 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, the BJP–Shiv-Sena and NCP–Congress alliances remained intact for seat sharing. The BJP and Shiv Sena together gained the majority of seats in the assembly but could not form a government due to disagreements between the two parties. The BJP, with 105 seats, was far short of the 145 seats required to form a majority and declined to form a minority government. As a result, Shiv Sena started talks with the NCP and Congress to form a government. However, in a controversial move, on 23 November 2019, the BJP formed a government with support from the NCP, with Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister. This government collapsed three days later with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Pawar resigning their respective positions. Finally, the NCP came back into power at the state level as part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition formed with Shiv Sena and the Congress. On 28 November 2019, the Governor of Maharashtra swore in Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray as the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Thackeray's cabinet included ministers from the NCP in key portfolios. [21] [22]

However, this alliance lost power in June 2022 after a rebel faction led by Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde gathered the support of a majority of Sena MLAs and reestablished the previous Sena-BJP coalition. [23] Subsequently, on 20 July, NCP President Sharad Pawar dissolved almost all units of the party. [24]

Second incarnation led by Ajit Pawar

In July 2023, Ajit Pawar, along with many of his supporters, left the Sharad Pawar-led NCP and joined the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP government as a Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. [25] This caused the NCP to split into two factions, with Ajit Pawar claiming in a letter to the Election Commission that he had been elected party president on June 30. [26] In his first meeting after the split, he expressed a desire to retain the party's symbol and name, urged Sharad Pawar to retire and give opportunities to new people, and criticised many of Sharad's decisions, including the formation of a government with the Shiv Sena instead of the BJP in 2019. [27] On 7 February 2024, The Election Commission Of India (ECI) awarded the party name and symbol to the faction headed by Ajit Pawar. The faction led by Sharad Pawar will be henceforth known as Nationalist Congress Party (SharadChandra Pawar) [28]

Party symbol, flag and color

The election symbol of NCP is an analogue alarm clock. [29] [30] The clock is drawn in blue and has two legs and an alarm button. It is situated on a tri-coloured Indian flag. [31]

Controversies and criticism

The Nationalist Congress Party has been extensively criticized for several reasons such as political corruption, insensitive comments, links to the underworld, and moral policing.

NCP leader Sharad Pawar was accused of having links to the underworld. This was revealed by former Supreme Court lawyer Ram Jethmalani, who had confirmed that after the March 1993 bombings in Bombay, Dawood Ibrahim had called him from London, saying that he was prepared to come to India and stand trial, on the condition that he should not be subjected to any third degree treatment from the police. [32] When Jethmalani had conveyed this to Sharad Pawar, the political leaders in power did not agree to this proposal. As per Jethmalani, their refusal to allow Dawood's return was due to their fears that he would expose their secrets. [33] [34]

In May 2005, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers stormed a pub in Pune, Maharashtra, broke window panes, damaged furniture, and thrashed visitors. The move came days after Pune Police had forced five pubs to shut before the closing time of 12:30 am. [35]

On 29 November 2008, in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, NCP leader and Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil was forced to resign after making insensitive comments after the attack. He was quoted as saying, "They (the terrorists) came to kill 5,000 people but we ensured minimal damage". [36] When asked at a press conference whether the terror strike was an intelligence failure Patil said, "It is not like that. In big cities like this, incidents like this do happen. It's is not a total failure." [37]

On 7 April 2013, NCP leader Ajit Pawar's statement at a speech in Indapur sparked controversy due to its alleged callousness. In response to a 55-day fast by activists protesting the Maharashtra governments inability to provide water during a drought, he asked whether he should "urinate into [the dam]" to make up for the lack of water in it. After a public outcry against his statement, he publicly apologized, saying that the comment was the "biggest mistake of [his] life". [38]

In 2021, Senior Inspector Sachin Vaze, an encounter specialist, was arrested for his involvement in the Antilia bomb scare. Through an investigation, Vaze revealed that he was acting at the behest of Anil Deshmukh, who was then minister of Home Affairs. [39] Vaze and Deshmukh were also involved in collecting extortion money in December 2020 from members of the Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association (AHAR). [40] Deshmukh was also under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate for money laundering, following accusations made by the former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh. [41]

On 23 February 2022, NCP President and leader Nawab Malik was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case and his alleged links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. [42] [43] He was charged and placed under arrest under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after several hours of grilling.

On 14 May 2022, Marathi television actress Ketaki Chitale was arrested by Mumbai Police for allegedly sharing an objectionable post about Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. [44] At the time of her arrest, NCP workers mobbed and attacked her and the officers who had arrested her. Chitale, who was molested, and her modesty was outraged by the NCP workers, and was later granted bail, was booked under IPC sections 500 (defamation), 501 (printing or engraving defamatory matter) and 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) of the Indian Penal Code. [45]

Electoral performance

General elections

YearLok SabhaSeats
contested		Seats won+/-Votes polled % of
votes		State (seats)
1999 13th Lok Sabha 32
8 / 543 (1%)
Increase2.svg88,260,3112.27%
  • Maharashtra (6)
  • Manipur (1)
  • Meghalaya (1)
2004 14th Lok Sabha 32
9 / 543 (2%)
Increase2.svg17,023,1751.80%
  • Maharashtra (9)
2009 15th Lok Sabha 68
9 / 543 (2%)
Steady2.svg8,521,5021.19%
  • Maharashtra (8)
  • Meghalaya (1)
2014 16th Lok Sabha 36
6 / 543 (1%)
Decrease2.svg38,635,5581.56%
  • Maharashtra (4)
  • Bihar (1)
  • Lakshadweep(1)
2019 17th Lok Sabha 35
5 / 543 (0.9%)
Decrease2.svg18,483,6321.39%
  • Maharashtra (4)
  • Lakshadweep(1)
2024 18th Lok Sabha 4
1 / 543 (0.2%)
Decrease2.svg4TBDTBD
  • Maharashtra (1)

State Legislative Assembly elections

YearVidhan Sabha termSeats
contested		Votes polled+/-Seats
won		 % of
votes
Goa Legislative Assembly
2017 1020,916Increase2.svg 1
1 / 40 (3%)
2.28%
2022 1310,846Decrease2.svg1
0 / 40 (0%)
Decrease2.svg 1.1%
Gujarat Legislative Assembly
2017 1821,84,815Decrease2.svg 1
1 / 182 (0.5%)
0.62%
2022 276,949Decrease2.svg 1
0 / 182 (0%)
Decrease2.svg0.36%
Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
2019 763,320Increase2.svg 1
1 / 81 (1%)
0.42%
Kerala Legislative Assembly
2016 42,37,408Steady2.svg
2 / 140 (1%)
1.17%
2021 32,06,130Steady2.svg
2 / 140 (1%)
0.99%
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
1999 10th Vidhan Sabha22374,25,427Increase2.svg58
58 / 288 (20%)
22.60%
2004 11th Vidhan Sabha12478,41,962Increase2.svg13
71 / 288 (25%)
18.75%
2009 12th Vidhan Sabha11374,20,212Decrease2.svg9
62 / 288 (22%)
16.37%
2014 13th Vidhan Sabha27891,22,285Decrease2.svg21
41 / 288 (14%)
17.24%
2019 14th Vidhan Sabha12592,16,919Increase2.svg13
54 / 288 (19%)
16.71%
2024 15th Vidhan Sabha6458,16,566Decrease2.svg13
41 / 288 (14%)
9.01%
Meghalaya Legislative Assembly
2018 629,287Decrease2.svg 1
1 / 60 (2%)
1.83%
Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly
2024 Increase2.svg 3
3 / 60 (5%)

List of Rajya Sabha Members

No.NameDate of AppointmentDate of RetirementDuration
1 Praful Patel 05-Jul-202227-Feb-20246 years, 27 days
21-Jun-202402-Jul-2028
2 Sunetra Pawar 18-Jun-202408-Jul-20283 years, 356 days
3Nitin Patil27-Aug-202408-Jul-20283 years, 316 days

List of Members of Lok Sabha

Election YearPortraitMPConstituencyState
2024 Sunil Tatkare in 2014.jpg Sunil Tatkare Raigad Maharashtra
17th Lok Sabha
2019 Mohammed Faizal P. P.jpg Mohammed Faizal Padippura Lakshadweep Lakshadweep
Supriya Sule.png Supriya Sule Baramati Maharashtra
No image available.svg Amol Kolhe Shirur
No image available.svg Udayanraje Bhosale Satara
2019
By-election 		No image available.svg Shriniwas Patil
16th Lok Sabha
2014 Tariq Anwar assuming office as Minister of State for Agriculture in 2012 (cropped).jpg Tariq Anwar Katihar Bihar
Mohammed Faizal P. P.jpg Mohammed Faizal Padippura Lakshadweep Lakshadweep
Supriya Sule.png Supriya Sule Baramati Maharashtra
No image available.svg Dhananjay Mahadik Kolhapur
Udayraje Bhosale.jpg Udayanraje Bhosale Satara
Vijaysinh Mohite Patil 2014-05-19 00-16.jpg Vijaysinh Mohite–Patil Madha
2018
By-Election		 No image available.svg Madhukar Kukde Bhandara–Gondiya
15th Lok Sabha
2009 Praful Patel addressing at the presentation ceremony of the MoU Excellence Awards & SCOPE Excellence Awards for the year 2009-10, in New Delhi on January 31, 2012.jpg Praful Patel Bhandara–Gondiya Maharashtra
No image available.svg Sameer Bhujbal Nashik
No image available.svg Sanjeev Naik Thane
No image available.svg Sanjay Dina Patil Mumbai North East
Supriya Sule.png Supriya Sule Baramati
No image available.svg Padamsinh Bajirao Patil Osmanabad
Sharad Pawar addressing the National Conference on Cooperatives for the celebration of International Year of Cooperatives, 2012, in New Delhi on May 15, 2012 (cropped).jpg Sharad Pawar Madha
Udayraje Bhosale.jpg Udayanraje Bhosale Satara
Agatha Sangma, 2009 (cropped).jpg Agatha K Sangma Tura (ST) Meghalaya
14th Lok Sabha
2004 No image available.svg Devidas Anandrao Pingale Nashik Maharashtra
No image available.svg Adv. Vasantrao J More
(Elected on 12.4.2007)		 Erandol
No image available.svg Suryakanta Patil Hingoli
No image available.svg Jaisingrao Gaikwad Patil Beed
Gadakh Tukaram Gangadhar.jpg Tukaram Gangadhar Gadakh Ahmednagar
Sharad Pawar addressing the National Conference on Cooperatives for the celebration of International Year of Cooperatives, 2012, in New Delhi on May 15, 2012 (cropped).jpg Sharad Pawar Baramati
No image available.svg Laxmanrao Pandurang Jadhav (Patil) Satara
No image available.svg Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil Karad
No image available.svg Nivedita Sambhajirao Mane Ichalkaranji
No image available.svg Sadashivrao Dadoba Mandlik Kolhapur
Elected on
19.02.2006
Resigned in
March 2008		 P. A. Sangma official portrait.jpg P. A. Sangma Tura Meghalaya
Elected in
May 2008		 Agatha Sangma, 2009 (cropped).jpg Agatha Sangma
13th Lok Sabha
1999 No image available.svg Ashok Namdeorao Mohol Khed Maharashtra
Sharad Pawar addressing the National Conference on Cooperatives for the celebration of International Year of Cooperatives, 2012, in New Delhi on May 15, 2012 (cropped).jpg Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar Baramati
No image available.svg Laxmanrao Pandurang Jadhav (Patil) Satara
Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil.jpg Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil Karad
No image available.svg Nivedita Sambhajirao Mane Ichalkaranji
No image available.svg Sadashivrao Dadoba Mandlik Kolhapur
No image available.svg Holkhomang Haokip Outer Manipur (ST) Manipur
P. A. Sangma official portrait.jpg Purano Agitok Sangma Tura Meghalaya

List of State Ministers

List of Deputy Chief Ministers

List of Deputy Chief Ministers of Maharashtra
Nos.PortraitChief MinisterTerm StartsTerm EndsDurationMinistry
1. Chhagan Bhujbal Vilasrao Deshmukh 18-October-199923-December-20034 years 66 days6 years 39 days First Deshmukh ministry
Sushilkumar Shinde Sushilkumar Shinde ministry
Ashok Chavan 8-December-20087-November-20091 year 338 days First Ashok Chavan ministry
7-November-200911-November-2010 Second Ashok Chavan ministry
2. Vijaysinh Mohite–Patil Sushilkumar Shinde 25-December-20031-November-2004312 days Sushilkumar Shinde ministry
3. R. R. Patil Vilasrao Deshmukh 1-November-20049-December-20084 years 37 days Second Deshmukh ministry
4. Ajit Pawar Prithviraj Chavan 11-November-201025-September- 20121 year 319 days7 years 234 days Prithviraj Chavan ministry
7-December-201228-September-20141 year 219 days
Devendra Fadnavis 23-November-201926-November-20193 days Second Fadnavis ministry
Uddhav Thackeray 30-December-201929-June-20222 years 181 days Thackeray ministry
Eknath Shinde 2-July-20235-December-20241 year 156 days Eknath Shinde ministry
Devendra Fadnavis 5-December-2024Incumbent8 days Third Fadnavis ministry

List of Ministers under Vilasrao Deshmukh

List of NCP Ministers in First Deshmukh ministry(18-Oct-1999-16-January-2003)
Nos.MinistersCM
Cabinet Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh
1. Chhagan Bhujbal
2. Padamsinh Bajirao Patil
3. Vijaysinh Mohite–Patil
4. Madhukar Pichad
5. Ajit Pawar
6. Vikramsinh Patankar
7. Datta Meghe
8. Vasant Chavan
9. Digvijay Khanvilkar
10. R. R. Patil
11. Dilip Walse Patil
12. Jayant Patil
Minister of State(MoS)
13. Arjun Tulshiram Pawar
14. Laxam Dhoble
15. Babasaheb Kupekar
16. Anil Deshmukh
17. Jaydattaji Kshirsagar
18. Hemant Deshmukh
19. Vimal Mundada
20. Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar
21. Sunil Tatkare
22. Subhash Thakre
23. N. P. Hirani

List of Ministers under Sushilkumar Shinde

List of NCP Ministers in Sushilkumar Shinde ministry(18-January-2003-1-November-2004)
Nos.MinistersCM
Cabinet Minister Sushilkumar Shinde
1. Chhagan Bhujbal
2. Padamsinh Bajirao Patil
3. Vijaysinh Mohite–Patil
4. Ajit Pawar
5. Vikramsinh Patankar
6. Vasant Chavan
7. R. R. Patil
8. Jayant Patil

List of Ministers under Vilasrao Deshmukh

List of NCP Ministers in Second Deshmukh ministry(1-November-2004-10-December-2008)
Nos.MinistersCM
Cabinet Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh
1. Chhagan Bhujbal
2. Vijaysinh Mohite–Patil
3. Ajit Pawar
4. R. R. Patil
5. Dilip Walse Patil
6. Jayant Patil
7. Ganesh Naik
8. Suresh Jain
9. Nawab Malik
10. Manohar Naik
11. Vijaykumar Krishnarao Gavit
12. Babanrao Pachpute
13. Anil Deshmukh
14. Vimal Mundada
15. Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar
16. Sunil Tatkare

List of Ministers under Ashok Chavan

List of NCP Ministers in First Ashok Chavan ministry(1-November-2009-10-December-2008)
Nos.MinistersCM
Cabinet Minister Ashok Chavan
1. Chhagan Bhujbal
2. Ajit Pawar
3. R. R. Patil
4. Dilip Walse Patil
5. Jayant Patil
6. Ganesh Naik
7. Ramesh Bang
8. Nawab Malik
9. Manohar Naik
10. Vijaykumar Krishnarao Gavit
11. Babanrao Pachpute
12. Vimal Mundada
13. Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar
14. Sunil Tatkare
15. Rajendra Shingne
16. Rajesh Tope
List of NCP Ministers in Second Ashok Chavan ministry(1-November-2004-10-December-2008)
Nos.MinistersCM
Cabinet Minister Ashok Chavan
1. Chhagan Bhujbal
2. R. R. Patil
3. Jayant Patil
4. Ganesh Naik
5. Ajit Pawar
6. Anil Deshmukh
7. Sunil Tatkare
8. Laxmanrao Dhobale
9. Jaydutt Kshirsagar
10. Manohar Naik
11. Vijaykumar Krishnarao Gavit
12. Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar
13. Babanrao Pachpute
14. Rajesh Tope
Minister of State(MoS)
15. Bhaskar Jadhav
16. Prakash Solande
17. Sachin Mohan Ahir
18. Fouzia Khan
19. Gulabrao Baburao Deokar

List of Ministers under Prithviraj Chavan

List of NCP Ministers in Prithviraj Chavan ministry(11-November-2010-16-September-2014)
Nos.MinistersCM
Cabinet Minister Prithviraj Chavan
1. Chhagan Bhujbal
2. Ajit Pawar
3. R. R. Patil
4. Sunil Tatkare
5. Jayant Patil
6. Hasan Mushrif
7. Jaydattaji Kshirsagar
8. Jitendra Awhad
9. Vijaykumar Krishnarao Gavit
10. Anil Deshmukh
11. Rajesh Tope
12. Shashikant Shinde
13. Babanrao Pachpute
14. Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar
15. Madhukar Pichad
16. Laxman Dhobale
Minister of State(MoS)
17. Uday Samant
18. Bhaskar Jadhav
19. Prakashdada Solanke
20. Sachin Ahir
21. Fouzia Khan
22. Gulabrao Deokar

List of Ministers under Devendra Fadnavis

List of NCP Ministers in Second Fadnavis ministry(23-November-2019-28-November-2019)
Nos.MinistersCM
Cabinet Minister Devendra Fadnavis
2. Ajit Pawar

List of Ministers under Uddhav Thackeray

List of NCP Ministers in Uddhav Thackeray ministry(28-November-2019-29-June-2022)
Nos.MinistersCM
Cabinet Minister Uddhav Thackeray
1. Chhagan Bhujbal
2. Ajit Pawar
3. Dilip Walse Patil
4. Dhananjay Munde
5. Jayant Patil
8. Jitendra Awhad
9. Nawab Malik
10. Anil Deshmukh
11. Rajesh Tope
12. Rajendra Shingne
13. Shamrao Pandurang Patil
Minister of State(MoS)
14. Prajakt Tanpure
15. Dattatray Vithoba Bharne
16. Sanjay Bansode
17. Aditi Tatkare

List of Ministers under Eknath Shinde

See also

Notes

1. ^ Praful Patel, Sunetra Pawar and Nitin Patil from Rajya Sabha and Sunil Tatkare from Lok Sabha.

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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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eknath Shinde</span> Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 2024 (born 1964)

Eknath Gangubai Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician who is serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra since December 2024 alongside Ajit Pawar. He is the chairperson of Shiv Sena since February 2023 and was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from June 2022 to December 2024. 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.

Jitendra Satish Awhad is a senior leader and Indian politician from Maharashtra. Previously he served as a member of legislative council of Maharashtra from 2002 to 2009. He also served as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition Maharashtra Legislative Assembly with Ajay Choudhari in 2024 and currently a Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for 3 terms representing Mumbra-Kalwa in Thane. He has previously served as the Acting Leader of the Opposition Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and he has previously served as Cabinet Minister of Medical Education and Horticulture in 2014 and Housing and Minority Affairs from 2019 to 2022. He belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election</span> Assembly election in 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 Maharashtra political crisis</span> Political crisis in the Indian state of Maharashtra

A political crisis in the Indian state of Maharashtra occurred on 21 October 2019 after the declaration of results of the 2019 legislative assembly election over the formation of a new state government. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party Shiv Sena alliance crossed the majority of 145 seats needed in the assembly by winning a total of 161 seats in the alliance. Individually BJP won 105 and SHS won 56 seats. The Opposition INC-NCP Alliance with 106 seats did not reach the majority mark. Individually INC won 44 and NCP won 54 seats.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Second Fadnavis ministry</span> Cabinet of Maharashtra, India in 2019

Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the chief minister of Maharashtra for the second time on 23 November 2019. Alongside Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar was sworn in as the deputy chief minister. Before a Supreme Court-ordered no confidence motion could take place, Pawar resigned on 26 November. Fadnavis resigned shortly thereafter, making his second ministry the shortest Maharashtra ministry, surpassing P. K. Sawant's 1963 interim government, that had lasted for nine days.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maha Vikas Aghadi</span> Indian political alliance

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 Legislative Council. 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

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election</span>

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 alliance won a landslide victory, winning 235 seats. None of the parties in the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance won the necessary number of seats to obtain the position of leader of opposition, a first in six decades.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">14th Maharashtra Assembly</span> Legislature of Maharashtra, India (2019–2024)

The Members of 14th Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra were elected in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, with results announced on 24 October 2019.

The 2023 Nationalist Congress Party split occurred on 2 July 2023, when Ajit Pawar, along with several other party leaders, broke away from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by his uncle Sharad Pawar and joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance government in Maharashtra. Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, along with eight other NCP leaders who took oath as ministers. This led to a vertical split in the party, with two factions emerging: one led by Sharad Pawar and the other by Ajit Pawar. The split resulted in a legal battle over the party's name and symbol. On 6 February 2024, the Election Commission of India (ECI) awarded the party name and symbol to the faction headed by Ajit Pawar. The faction led by Sharad Pawar was subsequently recognized as Nationalist Congress Party. On 5 March 2024, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar declared the Ajit Pawar faction as the "real" NCP, citing its legislative majority.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar</span> Political party in India

The Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar or NCP–SP is a political party in India formed under the leadership of Sharadchandra Pawar. It was formed after Election Commission of India recognised the group led by Ajit Pawar as the original Nationalist Congress Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maha Yuti</span> Indian political alliance

The Maha Yuti, formed in 2014, is a political coalition in Maharashtra, India. Currently the alliance consists of three major parties - the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party ― along with smaller partners such as Republican Party of India (Athawale), Rashtriya Samaj Paksha and many others.

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