Kalyan is a city on the banks of Ulhas River in Thane district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division. It is governed by Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation. Kalyan is a subdivision (Taluka) of Thane district. Kalyan and its neighbouring township of Dombivli jointly form Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation,abbreviated as KDMC. It is a founding city of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Kalyan is the 7th biggest city in Maharashtra and 29th in India. Kalyan also serves as a major railway station for the trains bound to Mumbai and is a large junction separating two routes,one going Karjat and other Kasara.
Raj Shrikant Thackeray is an Indian politician and the founding chairperson of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS),a regional political party. He is the nephew of ShivSena Founder Balasaheb Thackeray.
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena is a Regionalist Indian political party based in the state of Maharashtra and operates on the ideology of Hindutva and Marathi Manus. It was founded on 9 March 2006 in Mumbai by Raj Thackeray after he left the Shiv Sena party due to differences with his cousin Uddhav Thackeray,who later became the 19th Chief Minister Of Maharashtra and to his sidelining by the Shiv Sena in major decisions like distribution of election tickets.
The 2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra began on 3 February 2008 after violent clashes between workers of two political parties—Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Samajwadi Party (SP)—at Dadar in Mumbai,capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The clashes took place when workers of MNS,a splinter faction formed out of the Shiv Sena,tried to attack workers of SP,the regional party based in Uttar Pradesh,who were proceeding to attend a rally organised by the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA). Defending his party's stand,MNS chief Raj Thackeray explained that the attack was a reaction to the "provocative and unnecessary show of strength" and "uncontrolled political and cultural dadagiri (bullying) of Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants and their leaders".
On 19 October 2008,Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists attacked North Indian candidates appearing for the All India Railway Recruitment Board entrance exam for the Western region in Mumbai,India. The attacks invoked a quick reaction from Bihar members of the Union Government in Delhi,notably the Union Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his cabinet colleague,Ram Vilas Paswan. The Chief Minister of Bihar,Nitish Kumar spoke to his Maharashtra counterpart Vilasrao Deshmukh and urged him to provide protection to the migrants from Bihar. Lalu called for the MNS to be shut down and called Raj Thackeray,its leader,a "mental case."
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.
Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation is the governing body of the city of Kalyan-Dombivli,located in the Thane district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The municipal corporation consists of elected members from each municipal ward of the city knowns as councillors,is headed by a mayor and in his/her absence by a deputy mayor,elected from amongst councillors. The municipal corporation administers the city's infrastructure,public services and transport.
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituencies. The Assembly meets at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai,though the winter session is held in Nagpur. Along with the Maharashtra Legislative Council,it comprises the legislature of Maharashtra. The presiding officer of the Assembly is the Speaker. Members of the Assembly are directly elected by the people of Maharashtra through elections held every five years,unless the Assembly is dissolved earlier. The current Assembly was elected in October 2019.
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.
Rajan Vichare is an Indian politician and a Shiv Sena member of parliament representing Thane,Maharashtra in the 17th Lok Sabha. He has also previously been a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2009–2014.
Kapil Moreshwar Patil is politician from Bhiwandi in Maharashtra,India. He became the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ministry reshuffle on July 7,2021. He belong to Koli community of Maharashtra.
Shrikant Eknath Shinde is a member of the 17th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Kalyan constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena political party.
Eknath Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician who is serving as the 20th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 30 June 2022. He is also serving as the Leader of Shiv Sena since February 2023 and the Leader of the House,Maharashtra Legislative Assembly since July 2022. 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.
Dombivli Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state,western India. This constituency is located in Thane district.
Rajabhau Waje is an Indian politician,from Sinnar,Nashik district. He is the member of 18th Lok Sabha representing the Shivsena party. He was also a Member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Sinnar Vidhan Sabha constituency. He belongs to a political family;his grandfather,Shankar Balaji Waje was a Maharashtra Legislative Assembly member from Sinnar 1965 to 1967. His grandmother,Mathurabai Waje was the first female mayor of Sinnar Nagar Parishad in Bombay State in 1953. She resigned from his post to support the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement and served prison terms. His father,Prakash Waje,also contested 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election from Sinnar.
Bala Nandgaonkar is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He started with Shiv Sena,and later joined Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. He is a three term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Usroli and Shivadi Assembly Constituency.
Narendra Pawar is a politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party. Pawar was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Kalyan West in 2014. He is a first term member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Pravin Darekar is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was a one term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Magathane and former leader of Opposition in Maharashtra legislative council.
Vaijayanti Gholap is Shiv Sena politician from Thane district,Maharashtra,India. She was the mayor of Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation from 2010 to 2013. She has been elected to Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation for five consecutive terms from 1995 to 2020.
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.
