Ratnagiri is a port city on the Arabian Sea coast in Ratnagiri District in southwestern Maharashtra,India. The district is part of Konkan division of Maharashtra. The city is known for the Hapus or Alphonso mangoes. Ratnagiri is the birthplace of Indian independence activist Lokmanya Tilak. Thibaw,the last king of Burma,alongside his consort Supayalat and two infant daughters were exiled to a two-storied brick mansion in Ratnagiri. The building is now known as Thibaw Palace.
Dilip Datta Walse is an Indian politician,from Ambegaon,Maharashtra,and a seven-time Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). He is a minister in the Government of Maharashtra,since July 2023. He previously served as the Minister of Home Affairs in the Government of Maharashtra. He formerly headed the Ministry of Finance and Planning,Energy Ministry,Higher and Technical Education Ministry,and Medical Education Ministry,all as a Cabinet Minister from 1999 to 2009.
Ichalkaranji ([it͡səlkəɾəɳd͡ʒiː]) is a City in Kolhapur District,Maharashtra. It is situated at the bank of the Panchganga River. Its textile industry has led to the nickname 'Manchester City of Maharashtra'.
Shirol is a historic place. In a great war between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the Mughal Empire,the Mughals were defeated and the heads of Mughal soldiers were hanged at the main gate of city. So the name Shirol:Shir (heads) + ol (row).
Gulabrao Raghunathrao Patil was a Renowned Congress &Co-operative Leader,Member of Parliament (MP)-Rajya Sabha India,Maharashtra State Sangli from 1966 to 1978,Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) of Maharashtra 1983−87 and President of Maharashtra Pradesh Indian National Congress (I) Committee,Mumbai 1981−82.
Balasaheb Desai was a leading politician and social worker from Maharashtra,India,who held important positions in the Maharashtra state government as home minister,education minister and cultural minister during the initial formation of the Maharashtra state. He was instrumental in establishing Shivaji University in Kolhapur in 1962.
Bhaskarrao Patil is an Indian politician from Maharashtra belonging to Indian National Congress who served as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 1998. He was a member in the 12th,13th and 15th Lok Sabha’s. He was also a member of Maharashtra State Assembly (M.L.A) three times. He was elected from the Biloli Constituency in the years 1990,1995 and 2004.
Vijaysinh Shankarao Mohite-Patil is a politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and Member of Parliament (MP) for Madha in Maharashtra since the 2014 general election till the 2019 general election. He is member of Nationalist Congress Party.
Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil is a former Indian politician,best known as the governor of Bihar,West Bengal and Tripura. He was a leader of the Indian National Congress from Maharashtra state.
Dr Ratnappa Bharamappa Kumbhar,also called Deshbhakt Ratnappa Kumbhar,was an Indian independence activist from Ichalkaranji,who actively participated in the Indian independence movement. He was one of the persons to sign the Final Draft of the Constitution of India along with B. R. Ambedkar. He received Padma Shri award in 1985. He was Member of the Parliament,Member of Legislative Council and also worked as a Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in Maharashtra Government.
Vijay Bhausaheb Thorat,known popularly as Balasaheb Thorat,is an Indian politician who served as the revenue minister in Maharashtra state. He also served as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Thorat is a senior member of the Congress Party. He is an MLA from Sangamner constituency.
Satej Dnyandeo Patil is a Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from the Indian National Congress.He served as the Minister of State for Home (Urban),Housing,Transport,Information Technology,and Parliamentary Affairs. He previously served as Minister of State for Home,Rural Development,Food &Drugs Administration of Maharashtra in the UPA coalition government from 2010 to 2014. Like many of his contemporaries,Patil also followed his father Dr. D. Y. Patil in politics. Patil hails from the city of Kolhapur.
Vasanthrao Lakangouda Patil,widely known as 'Aabaji' was an Indian politician,industrialist,and freedom fighter.
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.
Keshavrao Sonawane (1925–2006) was an Indian politician,who served four terms in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly,and was a Co-operative minister in Yashwantrao Chavan's cabinet and later Vasantrao Naik's cabinet during 1962–1967. He was elected as Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for 4 times,twice from Latur constituency and twice from Ausa constituency.
Chandrakant Bacchu Patil is an Indian politician and the Higher and technical education minister of Maharashtra state in the present Government of Maharashtra. Chandrakant Patil was the Maharashtra state President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2019 to 2022.
Pandurang Gamaji Abhang is the President of ‘Deenmitrakar’Mukundrao Patil Smarak Samiti.
Ulhas Patil is a politician from Kolhapur district,Maharashtra. He was a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Shirol Assembly Constituency as member of Shiv Sena. He was born in a farmer family,from childhood he knew the basic problems of farmers. That’s why he decided to fight for farmers’problems. Ulhas patil started his work in early 1990s. he has done many protests for farmers in kolhapur district.
Rohit Rajendra Pawar is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency in Maharashtra,India. He belongs to the politically influential Pawar family.
Prin. Dr. P. B. Patil was a member of the Sangli Assembly constituency of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (1972-1978),a social reformer who worked for the cause of education and rural development in Maharashtra,India. He was born in a small farmer's family in Chikurde village of Walwa Taluka in Sangli district,Maharashtra,India.
