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.
Aurangabad,officially known as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Aurangabad district,Maharashtra and is the largest city in the Marathwada region. Located on a hilly upland terrain in the Deccan Traps,Aurangabad is the fifth-most populous urban area in Maharashtra after Mumbai,Pune,Nagpur and Nashik with a population of 1,175,116. The city is known as a major production center of cotton textile and artistic silk fabrics. Several prominent educational institutions,including Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University,are located in the city. The city is also a popular tourism hub,with tourist destinations like the Ajanta and Ellora caves lying on its outskirts,both of which have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1983. Other tourist attractions include the Aurangabad Caves,Devagiri Fort,Grishneshwar Temple,Jama Mosque,Bibi Ka Maqbara,Himayat Bagh,Panchakki and Salim Ali Lake. Historically,there were 52 Gates in Aurangabad,some of them extant,because of which Aurangabad is nicknamed as the "City of Gates". In 2019,the Aurangabad Industrial City (AURIC) became the first greenfield industrial smart city of India under the country's flagship Smart Cities Mission.
Yavatmal district,[jəʋət̪maːɭ] formerly known as Yeotmal,is a district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is located in the region of Vidarbha,in the east-central part of the state. It is Vidarbha's third-largest district by population,after Nagpur and Amravati. Yavatmal city is the administrative headquarters of the district.
Yavatmal ( is a city and municipal council in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Yavatmal District. Yavatmal is around 90 km away from divisional headquarters Amravati while it is 670 km away from the state capital Mumbai and 150 km south west of Nagpur.
Eknath Khadse is a politician and leader of the Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra state. He was a Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra from Muktainagar constituency for six consecutive terms till 2019. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 1987 until his resignation in October 2020. He is a member of Legislative Council of Maharashtra.
Vijay Jawaharlal Darda is a politician from Indian National Congress party,and was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 1998,having been elected for three consecutive terms into the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the chairman of the Lokmat Media Group. He is also the President of the Akhil Bhartiya Sakal Jain Samaj. Darda was President of the Indian Newspaper Society,New Delhi from 1997 to 1998. He continues to be a member of its executive committee.
The Maharashtra Legislative Council or Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India.
Latur is a city and a Tehsil in Latur district in the Maharashtra state of India. Before 1982 Latur was a part of Osmanabad district. The city is a tourist hub surrounded by many historical monuments Kharosa Caves. The most spoken language in Latur is Marathi. The city's quality of education attracts students from all over Maharashtra. It is a drought prone area with acute water shortage in its city and rural areas. The economy is agriculture intensive,but in recent years is also dependent on Educational sector and its allied activities. Industrial development is minimal in the district. Latur is 43 kilometers from the epicenter of the devastating 1993 Latur earthquake.
Dr. Janardan Madhavrao Waghmare is an Indian politician and educationist. He has served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. He was also the President of the Latur Municipal Council.
Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis is an Indian politician currently serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 30 June 2022,alongside Ajit Pawar. He previously held the position of Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 31 October 2014 to 12 November 2019. From 2019 to 2022,he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and was the President of BJP's Maharashtra state unit from 2013 to 2015. He became Chief Minister at the age of 44,making him the second-youngest in Maharashtra's history after Sharad Pawar.
Subhash Desai is an Indian politician and leader of Shiv Sena from Maharashtra. He is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Council. He had represented Goregaon in 1990,2004 and 2009. Desai took charge as the Cabinet Minister of Industries in 2014. He was also the guardian minister of Aurangabad district.
Tatyarao Pundlikrao Lahane is an Indian eye surgeon and ophthalmologist. He served as the Dean of Grant Medical College and J. J. Hospital,Mumbai,and set a world record with more than 162,000 cataract surgeries. He was awarded Padma Shri award in 2008,the 4th highest civilian award in India.
Sambhaji Patil Nilangekar is an Indian politician and leader of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Maharashtra currently representing Nilanga constituency,Maharashtra as Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
Harshvardhan Jadhav is an Indian politician who formerly represented Kannad in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He has been a member of Shiv Sena,Maharashtra Navnirman Sena,Shiv Swarajya Paksha at various times in his political career and later joined in Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
Abdul Sattar Abdul Nabi is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was briefly a minister in 2014 in the Congress government in Maharashtra. In 2019 he left Congress and joined Shiv Sena. He is a three term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Sillod constituency. He served as the state's Cabinet Minister for Animal Husbandry.
Imtiyaz Jaleel Syed,also known as Syed Imtiyaz Jaleel,is an Indian politician and member of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. In 2019 General Elections,Jaleel was elected as Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Aurangabad Lok Sabha Constituency. He was elected as member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Aurangabad Central constituency in 2014. He is also the state president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in Maharashtra as well as a member of the Standing Committee of the Urban Development (UD).
Dr. Rajendra Bhaskarrao Shingne is an Indian politician and a member of 9th,10th,11th,12th and 14th Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra. He was Cabinet Minister for Food and Drugs administration in the Government of Maharashtra.
North Maharashtra is a geographical region of Maharashtra State,India. The region is composed of Nashik,Dhule,Nandurbar,and Jalgaon districts. It borders the state of Gujarat to the northwest,Paschim Maharashtra to the south,Konkan to the west,and the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra to the east.
Jawaharlal Amolakchand Darda,known popularly as Babuji,was an Indian freedom fighter and a senior Indian National Congress politician. He is the founding editor of Lokmat group of newspapers. He was a pioneering journalist and a prominent politician of his time.
Ranjanatai Harshvardhan Jadhav, also known as Sanjana is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. She was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Kannad representing the Shiv Sena winning the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election.
