Peasants and Workers Party of India

Peasants and Workers Party of India
General Secretary	Jayant Patil
Founded	3 August 1947(78 years ago) (1947-08-03) [1]
Headquarters	Govt. Kutir, Opp. Mantralaya, VV Road, Nariman Point, Mumbai (Maharashtra)
Youth wing	Purogami Yuvak Sanghatna
Labour wing	All India Workers Trade Union
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism
Political position	Left-wing
ECI Status	Registered Party [2]
Alliance	Maha Vikas Aghadi (2019-Present) [3] (Maharashtra) Maha Agadhi (2018-2019) (Maharashtra) UPA (2018-2023) (National Level) [4] I.N.D.I.A. (Aug 2023- present) (National Level)
Seats in  Maharashtra Legislative Assembly	1 / 288
Seats in  Maharashtra Legislative Council [5]	0 / 78
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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, ^[6] having its roots from the pre-Independence period and has around 10,000 members. ^[7] 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. ^{[8] [9]}

A former member of the Legislative Council of Maharashtra, ^[10] Jayant Prabhakar Patil is the general secretary of the party. The party has 1 MLA and no MLC. ^[5] The party has a strong hold on Raigad District as well as party has Zilla Parishad members in 6 districts of Maharashtra, namely Raigad, Solapur, Nashik, Nagpur, Nanded and Parabhani.

The student organization of the party is called Purogami Yuvak Sanghatna.

The trade union of the party is called All India Workers Trade Union, All India Insurance Workers Union and its Trade Union Federation is Progressive Workers and Peasants of India. Comrade Janardan Singh is General Secretary of these trade unions and trade union federation. The party has played a very important role in Samyukta Maharashtra Movement under the leadership of Bhausaheb Raut, Uddhavrao Patil, Dajiba Desai. Most important meetings of this movement and coordination took place at the Mumbai -Koliwadi, Girgaum bungalow of Shri Bhausaheb Raut.

In the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election at age 88, Ganpatrao Deshmukh of the party won the Sangole constituency for record 11th time with 94,374 votes, defeating Shahajibapu Patil of Shiv Sena by 25,224 votes, while the NCP did not field a candidate against him. ^{[11] [12] [13]}

Electoral performance

Lok Sabha

Year	Seats won	+/-
1952	2 / 48	new
1957	4 / 48	2
1962	0 / 48	4
1967	2 / 48	2
1971	0 / 48	2
1977	5 / 48	5
1980	0 / 48	5
1984	1 / 48	1
1989	1 / 48
1991	0 / 48	1
1996	0 / 48
1998	1 / 48	1
1999	1 / 48
2004	0 / 48	1
2009	0 / 48
2014	0 / 48
2019	0 / 48
2024	0 / 48

Vidhan Sabha

Year	Seats won	Seats contested	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)
1952	14 / 315	87	new	6.45%	new
1957	31 / 396	55	17	6.66%	0.21%
1962	15 / 264	79	16	7.47%	0.81%
1967	19 / 270	58	4	7.8%	0.33%
1972	7 / 270	58	12	5.66%	2.14%
1978	13 / 288	88	6	5.54%	0.12%
1980	9 / 288	41	4	4.14%	1.4%
1985	13 / 288	29	4	3.77%	0.37%
1990	8 / 288	40	5	2.42%	1.35%
1995	6 / 288	42	2	2.05%	0.37%
1999	5 / 288	22	1	1.49%	0.56%
2004	2 / 288	43	3	1.31%	0.18%
2009	4 / 288	17	2	1.11%	0.2%
2014	3 / 288	51	1	1.01%	0.1%
2019	1 / 288	24	2	0.97%	0.04%
2024	1 / 288

Leadership

• Dajiba Desai
• N. D. Patil
• D. B. Patil
• Adv. Datta Patil
• Bhai Ganpatrao Deshmukh
• Udhavrao Patil
• Bhai Kishanrao Deshmukh
• Sheshrao Deshmukh
• Vivek Patil
• Krishnarao Dhulap
• Yogiraj Jaybhay Patil
• Dinkar Patil
• B. N. Deshmukh
• Rahul Deshmukh (General Secretary of Eastern Vidarbha)

Strength in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

For the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly 2019, the party fielded 24 candidates out of which Shyamsundar Dagdoji Shinde won the Loha Assembly constituency seat by a margin of 64,362 votes. This makes Shinde the only Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA) from PWP.

References

1. Bhole B.L., ’Bharatiya Shetakari Kamgar Paksha’ (Marathi) doctoral dissertation, Nagpur University, 1982, p.37.
2. "List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18.01.2013" (PDF). India: Election Commission of India. 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
3. "Patil is supported by the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), the NCP and Congress". ThePrint . 11 January 2023.
4. "NCP, Congress to contest 2019 Lok Sabha polls with Peasants and Workers Party of India: Sharad Pawar". Hindustan Times. 24 December 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
5. "List of Members of Maharashtra Legislative Council" (PDF) (in Marshallese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2024.
6. Bhole B.L., ’Bharatiya Shetakari Kamgar Paksha’ (Marathi) doctoral dissertation, Nagpur University, 1982, p.37.
7. Busky, Donald F.. Communism in history and theory. Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Westport: Praeger, 2002. p. 61
8. P. K. Ravindranath (1 February 1992). Sharad Pawar, the making of a modern Maratha. UBS Publishers' Distributors. p. 22. ISBN   978-81-85674-46-9 . Retrieved 5 March 2015.
9. Gautam Vohra (1992). The New Political Elite. Daya Publishing House. pp. 164–. ISBN   978-81-7035-109-2 . Retrieved 5 March 2015.
10. "Loss won't change my stand, still with MVA: Jayant Patil". The Times of India. 14 July 2024. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 18 July 2024.
11. "Ganpatrao Deshmukh creates record". The Indian Express. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
12. "Ganpatrao Deshmukh: Longest-serving MLA in Maharashtra scores a record 11th win". The Economic Times. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
13. "Constituency". Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.