The Peasants and Workers Party of India (PWP) is a Marxist political party in Maharashtra, India. The party was founded in 1948, having its roots from the pre-Independence period and has around 10,000 members. 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.
Narayan Tatu Rane is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg. He was former Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He former serves as Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Second Modi ministry. He has previously held Cabinet Ministry positions for Industry, Port, Employment and Self-employment; Revenue; and Industry in the Government of Maharashtra.
Sunil Panjabrao Deshmukh is the Member of Legislative Assembly from the constituency of Amravati, Maharashtra, India. He is a member of Indian National Congress (INC). In 2009, he was expelled from the Indian National Congress due to his rebellion in the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha election, 2009 when he was denied a ticket to contest the election from his Amravati constituency in order to accommodate Mr. Raosaheb Shekhawat, the son of then President of India, Pratibha Patil. He was also the Minister of State for Finance and Planning, Public Works and Energy in the cabinet of the Government of Maharashtra (2004-2009). He was also the guardian minister for Amravati and Bhandara Districts of Vidarbha, Maharashtra from 2004-2009. Additionally, he also served as the ex-officio Vice-Chairman of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board's holding company and as the co-chairman of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd.
Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Legislative Council From Maharasthra.
Vijay Namdevrao Wadettiwar is an Indian politician, Former Cabinet Minister in the Government of Maharashtra in India and Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He is leader of Indian National Congress Maharashtra.
Ashish Shelar is an Indian politician and cricket administrator belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Maharashtra Legislative Assembly member representing Vandre West since 2014. He is president of the Mumbai unit of the BJP. He was elected as vice president of Mumbai Cricket Association on 17 June 2015. Elected as treasurer of the BCCI. On 9 September 2015, Shelar gained controversy when he helped ban the sale of meat for 8 days for the annual Jain celebration, Paryushana, at which time total fast from any and every food is required. Most constituencies in Maharashtra ban the sale of meat for only 4 days. The ban was criticized by the BJP's Maharashtra coalition partner, Shiv Sena.
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated in the Nariman Point area of South Mumbai in the capital Mumbai. Presently, 288 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from the single-seat constituencies.
Imran Masood is an Indian politician.He is currently serving Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Saharanpur. He has served as the Chairman of Saharanpur's Municipal Council and MLA from Muzzafarabad seat in Saharanpur District in the UP state assembly. He was a vice president of Indian National Congress, Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of Advisory council in Uttar Pradesh Congress. He was former National secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC).
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.
Govindrao Rathod was a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represented the Mukhed Assembly Constituency. He belonged to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He died soon after being elected & without swearing-in. He was 62 at the time of his death.
Bhai Jagtap is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress from Mumbai Maharashtra. He is a two term Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) and a one term Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA). He formerly served as the President of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee.
Jitendra Satish Awhad is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. Currently he is Deputy Leader of the Opposition Maharashtra Legislative Assembly serving with Ajay Choudhari 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.
Satyavathi Rathod is an Indian politician serving as the Minister for Tribal Welfare, Women and Child Welfare of Telangana since 2019. She is the first tribal woman to serve as a Minister in Telangana. She is a member of the Telangana Legislative Council from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Rathod previously represented the Dornakal constituency in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2009 from the Telugu Desam Party.
Dhiraj Vilasrao Deshmukh is an Indian politician and an MLA of Indian National Congress, and son of Vilasrao Deshmukh. He was elected from the Latur Rural to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2019 as a member of the Indian National Congress. He won by a margin of 121,482, which is the third-largest in terms of votes in 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election.
Ramesh Kashiram Karad, commonly known as Ramesh Appa Karad, is an Indian politician from Maharashtra state and a member of Maharashtra Legislative Council from Bharatiya Janata Party and district president of Bharatiya Janata Party Latur.
Amol Ramkrushna Mitkari is an Indian social activist, orator and politician belonging to the Nationalist Congress Party. He is member of Maharashtra Legislative Council and also served as member of Zilla Parishad. He got elected to the Legislative Council by MLA's unopposed on 24 May 2020, along with 9 others.
Satyajeet Sudhir Tambe is a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from the Nashik Graduate constituency in Maharashtra, India. He contested and won the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections from Nashik Graduate constituency in 2023. He was associated with the Indian National Congress till 2022. Maharashtra Congress suspended Satyajit Tambe after he filed his independent candidature form from Nashik Graduate Constituency.
Bomma Mahesh Kumar Goud is an Indian politician from Telangana. He was elected unanimously as member of the Telangana Legislative Council under the MLA quota on 22 January 2024. He is also the Working President of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee since 28 June 2021.
Indian