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. This place has many villages like Karla,Rajiwada,Mirkarwada,etc.
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.
Kolhapur district is a district in the Maharashtra state of India. The city of Kolhapur is its district headquarter. It is situated near Panchaganga river.
Rajaram College,Kolhapur is a government college affiliated to Shivaji University in Kolhapur. It offers junior college-level courses such as 11th &12th,bachelor degree level courses such as in science,humanities,languages and arts and offers an MA in Psychology and Home science. It also runs MSc in Analytical Chemistry It also has a popular junior college offering higher secondary education courses in science and arts.
Bhudargad is a tehsil in Kolhapur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Bhudargad is a fort built by Shivaji. Gargoti,the administrative place of Bhudargad tehsil is also known as an educational and economic hub of tehsil that has various institutions such as Mouni Vidyapeeth,D.Ed and B.Ed. College and ICRE - Institute of Civil and Rural Engineering.
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.
The Maharashtra Legislative Council or Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India.
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.
Keshavrao Marutirao Jedhe (Deshmukh) (21 April 1896 –12 November 1959) also known as Keshavrao Jedhe was an Indian independence activist and politician from Pune. He served as a leading figure in the Indian National Congress,and in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement during the independence. The famous Swargate chowk in Pune is named after him.
V. T. Patil was an education reformer and politician who represented Kolhapur as a Member of Parliament in the 3rd Lok Sabha that sat between 1962 and 1967. His interest in development of education in Kolhapur —a town in Maharashtra,India —is reflected in the various institutions that he either founded or was involved in founding.
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.
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.
Vinod Sridhar Tawde is an Indian politician from Maharashtra and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the General Secretary for Maharashtra unit of the party,President for Mumbai,All India National Executive Council Member and a key member of co-ordination Committee of the BJP for the 12th and 13th Lok Sabha Election.
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.
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.
Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil is an Indian politician,educator,author and industrialist. Born in Solapur,he is the son of V.L. Patil,a politician and freedom fighter. Vivekrao is the Indian politician. He completed his MBA from Chatrapati Shivaji University,Kolhapur.
Amal Mahadik is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Ruturaj Sanjay Patil is an Indian Politician from Kolhapur District. He is the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Kolhapur South. He is the grandson of the D. Y. Patil.
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.
