Raosaheb Dadarao Danve is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament from Jalna, Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Coal and Ministry of Mines in Second Modi ministry. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected to Lok Sabha from Jalna constituency for five straight terms beginning in 1999 until 2024. He previously served as Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution from 30 May 2019 to 7 July 2021 and also served as the Maharashtra state President of BJP.
Prithviraj Chavan is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Chavan is a graduate of BITS Pilani and University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering. He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974. Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean, non-controversial image, a low-profile leader. Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions. Chavan was also General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC), in-charge of many states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Haryana, Gujarat, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh.
Ashok Shankarrao Chavan is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is the son of the late former Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan. He was one of the most influential leaders of Indian National Congress in Maharashtra but joined Bhartiya Janata Party on 13 February 2024. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra state from 8 December 2008 to 9 November 2010. Also, he has served as Minister for Cultural Affairs, Industries, Mines and Protocol in the Vilasrao Deshmukh government and he is also the former PWD Minister of Maharashtra.
Ulhasnagar Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. The constituency is dominated by Sindhi the community.
Vijay Namdevrao Wadettiwar is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra and a former Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He is a member of Indian National Congress and a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Bramhapuri constituency.
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.
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.
Ramdas Tadas is member of 16th Lok Sabha representing Wardha in Maharashtra state of India. He was member of Maharashtra Legislative Council as member of Nationalist Congress Party. Later he moved to BJP in 2009 and contested Deoli Assembly seat of Maharashtra and loss by Ranjit Kamble. He was Vice President of Bhartiya Janata Party Maharashtra State Unit with President and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Shrikant Eknath Shinde is an Indian politician serving as a member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha. He represents the Kalyan constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena political party.
Vijaykumar Gavit is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Nandurbar.
Vidya Jaiprakash Thakur is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. She is a three time MLA and a member of 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Goregaon representing the Bharatiya Janata Party from Goregaon Assembly constituency. She was a Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Food and Drugs Administration in Devendra Fadnavis Ministry.
Eknath Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician who is serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra since December 2024 alongside Ajit Pawar under Devendra Fadnavis. He is the chairperson of Shiv Sena since February 2023 and was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from June 2022 to December 2024. 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.
Jaykumar Rawal is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Sindkheda Constituency. Jaykumar Rawal is a descendant of the royal family of Dondaicha Sansthan and his grandfather Sahakar Maharshi Dadasaheb Rawal was the first MLA in 1952. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rawal was also Member of Legislative Assembly from Sindkheda in 2009. Rawal was one of the general secretaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party Maharashtra State unit in 2013. He is a Five term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 & 2024.
Krishna Pancham Khopde is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, in India. He represents the Nagpur East Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is BJP sitting member, having been a member of the 12 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly too. Khopde in 2014 was the chief of the Nagpur City BJP. In 2009 he created a major upset defeating 5 time MLA Satish Chaturvedi of the Indian National Congress. Khopde was a corporator in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation and a standing committee chairman. Khopde is a high school dropout.
Ravindra Waikar is a Shiv Sena politician from Maharashtra. He is a Member of Parliament from Mumbai North West. He was also a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Jogeshwari East Assembly Constituency. He has been elected to Vidhan Sabha for three consecutive terms in 2009, 2014 and 2019. He was appointed Maharashtra's minister of state, Higher & Technical Education in December 2014. He was given the Housing, Higher & Technical Education portfolio. He was also given responsibility of being guardian minister of Ratnagiri district.
Kalyan West Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state, western India. This constituency is located in Thane district.
Kalyan Rural Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state, western India. This constituency is located in Thane district.
Suresh Ambadasrao Warpudkar is an Indian politician who is the member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2019 from Pathri as an Indian National Congress candidate. He was also a minister of state in Government of Maharashtra and Member of Parliament in 1998 from Parbhani.
Chandrakant Damodhar Handore is an Indian politician and the current Member of Parliament from Maharashtra. He is an Indian National Congress member and had represented Chembur in 12th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Vilasrao Deshmukh ministry. On 5 February 2021, Handore appointed as a Working President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee.
Bapusaheb Tukaram Pathare is an Indian politician and a former member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He served as the first corporator of Kharadi and was a member of the district council of Pune. He was a chairperson of the Pune Municipal Corporation. He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2009 from the Vadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency. He is elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2024 from the Vadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency.
