Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for four terms and has also served in the Union Council of Ministers as the Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of P.V. Narsimha Rao and as Minister of Agriculture in the Cabinet of Manmohan Singh. He is the first and former president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),"which he founded in 1999,after separating from the Indian National Congress". His faction of the NCP was split by his nephew,Ajit Pawar. He leads his faction of the NCP in the Rajya Sabha,the upper chamber of the Indian parliament. He is the chairperson of Maha Vikas Aghadi,a regional Maharashtra-based political alliance.
Nilesh Narayan Rane is an Indian Politician. He is from Maharashtra,a state in Western India. He is a son of Narayan Rane Ex Chief Minister of Maharashtra &Current Cabinet Minister of Ministry of MSME.
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.
Kothrud Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in Western India. It is one of the twenty one constituencies of located in the Pune district and one of eight in Pune City.
Kasba Peth Assembly constituency is one of the constituencies of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly,in India. It is constituency is located in the Pune district and is a segment of Pune.
Ramesh Hiraman Wanjale was a Maharashtra politician. He was fondly known as the "gold man" in the Pune district because of his habit of sporting gold jewellery. He died on 10 June 2011 due to heart attack.
Chinchwad Assembly constituency is one of the twenty one constituencies of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha located in the city of Pune,India.
Dhananjay Bhimrao Mahadik is an Indian politician from Kolhapur district in Maharashtra state. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha (2014–2019) from Kolhapur as an NCP candidate. Dhananjay Mahadik is a Nephew of Mahadevrao Mahadik alias Appa Mahadik.
Ravindra Vishwanath Gaikwad is an Indian politician associated with Shiv Sena,and was a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India from 2014 to 2019 as a member of that party. He did not contest Lok Sabha elections in 2019. In 2014,he had contested from Osmanabad constituency of Maharashtra,and defeated sitting MP Padamsinha Bajirao Patil who contested from Nationalist Congress Party by 235,325 votes by obtaining 607,699 votes against 373,374. Before 2014,he was a two time MLA from omerga constituency. He has also been the Chairman of Killari Sugar Factory. He is a director on the agriculture board committee in the Central Government of India. His son Kiran Ravindra Gaikwad lost the Zilla parishad Osmanabad election from kunhali constituency. The loss to prakash Ashte was widely discussed in media.
Girish Bapat was an Indian politician who served as a member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Pune,Maharashtra in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. Earlier he served as the Cabinet Minister for Food,Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection,Food and Drugs Administration and Parliamentary Affairs in the First Fadnavis ministry. He was a member of 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and one of the top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Vidhan Sabha. He was elected from Kasba Peth constituency to the Vidhan Sabha in five consecutive elections since 1995.
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).
Vinayak Nimhan was Shiv Sena politician from Pune,Maharashtra. He was member of the 12th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing the Shivajinagar Assembly Constituency. He had been elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for three consecutive terms. For his first two terms,he was elected as a member of the Shivsena. For his third term,he was elected on the Indian National Congress ticket. In Nimhan was defeated in the 2014 assembly elections. He has since then returned to the Shivsena.
Bhavani Peth Assembly constituency was one of the 288 assembly constituencies of Maharashtra a western state of India. Bhavani Peth was also part of Pune Lok Sabha constituency. Bhavani Peth seat existed till 2004 elections until Kothrud Assembly constituency was formed in the delimitation of 2008.
Sunil Dnyandev Kamble is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Pune Cantonment in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Mukta Tilak was an Indian politician. She was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Kasba Peth in the 2019 state elections as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Murlidhar Kisan Mohol is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Pune Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 Indian general election. Despite being a first-term MP,he was appointed as the Minister of State for Cooperation and Civil Aviation in the Indian central government. Previously,Mohol served as the Mayor of Pune from November 2019 to March 2022.
Elections in India in 2023 were held in the Rajya Sabha,state legislative assemblies of nine states and several local bodies.
The 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election was held on 20 November 2024 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly to elect 288 members of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. The turnout for the election was 66.05%,the highest since 1995. The ruling Maha Yuti won a landslide victory winning 235 seats and none of the parties in the Maha Vikas Aghadi had sufficient seats to get the position of leader of opposition,the first time in six decades.
The Revolutionary Goans Party is a regional party in the Indian state of Goa. First registered as a non-governmental organization when founded in March 2017,it received recognition as a political party from the Election Commission of India in 2022. The party contested 38 seats in the 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election,winning the St Andre constituency. The party's "anti-migrant" policies have been classified as similar to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
Suresh Gopinath Mhatre also known by locals as Balya Mama is an Indian politician and businessman from Maharashtra,who has been serving as a member of Lok Sabha from Bhiwandi seat since 2024.
