Shobha Fadnavis is a Maharashtrian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council and a former minister in Government of Maharashtra. [1] She hails from Mul, Chandrapur district. [2] [3] She represented Saoli Vidhan Sabha constituency from 1990 to 2004 until the constituency was abolished in 2008.She is the aunt of two term Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis.
She has written several books during her political career such as Pratyancha (Biography) and Dhandola Sheticha (On Farmers).
Hansraj Ahir is a former member of the 16th Lok Sabha in India. He was Minister of State Home Affairs. He was member of 11th Lok Sabha, 14th Lok Sabha, 15th Lok Sabha. He is famous for exposing Coal Mining Scam specially pouni-3 in WCL.
Rupatai Diliprao Patil Nilangekar is an Indian politician who served as the Member of the Lok Sabha represent the Latur constituency, from 2004 to 2009. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
Subhash Sureshchandra Deshmukh is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Deshmukh represents the Solapur South constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He served as the Cabinet Minister of Co-Operation, Relief and Rehabilitation in the Government of Maharashtra.
Eknath Khadse is a politician and leader of the Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra state. He was a Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra from Muktainagar constituency for six consecutive terms till 2019. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 1987 until his resignation in October 2020.
Pandurang Pundalik Fundkar, alias Bhausaheb Fundkar, was leader of opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council in India. He was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Gadchiroli–Chimur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency came into existence on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the Presidential notification on delimitation of parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. This seat is reserved for Scheduled Tribes. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Marotrao Kowase of the Indian National Congress. As of the 2014 elections, it is represented by Ashok Nete of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Vijay Namdevrao Wadettiwar is an Indian politician and Cabinet Minister of Other backward class welfare, disaster management, relief & rehabilitation in the Government of Maharashtra in India. He is a prominent and stronghold leader from the Indian National Congress Party. He is one of the most influential leaders of Indian National Congress Maharashtra with strong public support from his homeground in Naxalite infected area of Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. He formerly represented Shivsena, then in 2009 elections he contested on Indian National Congress ticket and won with a majority of more than 50,000 votes from Chimur legislative constituency. Vijay Wadettiwar is the most trustworthy OBC VJNT leader in Maharashtra.
Sudhir Sachchidanand Mungantiwar is a legislator from the state of Maharashtra, India. He served as the Cabinet Minister of Finance & Planning and Forests departments in the Government of Maharashtra, Previously, he was the Maharashtra State President for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2010 to 2013 and the Minister of Tourism and Consumer Protection in the Government of Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999. In 2014, he was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly to serve for a fifth consecutive term. He also holds additional charge as the Guardian Minister of Chandrapur and Wardha districts.
Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis is an Indian politician who is the current Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He also served as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (CM), in office from 31 October 2014 to 12 November 2019. He was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Indian state of Maharashtra has a bicameral legislature, comprising two houses. The lower house, known as the Legislative Assembly, is directly elected by the people and is the more powerful of the two houses. The upper house, known as the Legislative Council is elected indirectly by several specially designated electorates.
Pankaja Munde, also known by her married name Pankaja Munde-Palwe, is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra and National Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Vidya Thakur is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Goregaon. She is Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Food and Drugs Administration in Devendra Fadnavis Ministry. On 10 July 2016 she was relieved of responsibility for food and drug administration in a cabinet reshuffle.
Jaykumar Rawal is a member of the 13th 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 fourth term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2004, 2009, 2014 & 2019.
Sanjay Dulichand Rathod is a Shiv Sena politician from Yavatmal district, Maharashtra. He is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Digras Assembly Constituency. He was appointed Maharashtra's minister of state in December, 2014. He was given the revenue portfolio. He was also given responsibility of being guardian minister of Yavatmal district. His election in the 2014 election made him a three term Member of Legislative Assembly. He was at the time of his appointment as minister, Shiv Sena's Yavatmal district president. He was made a cabinet minister on 30 December 2019. Rathod belongs to the Banjara community. He won 2014 assembly election with record margin of 79,864, second highest in Maharashtra.
Dadaji Dagadu Bhuse is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Malegaon Outer Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Shiv Sena. It is Bhuse's fourth term as Member of Legislative Assembly. In December 2014, he was appointed Minister of State for Co-operation.
Ballarpur Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state, western India. This constituency is located in Chandrapur district. The delimitation of the constituency happened in 2008.
Suresh (Balu) Dhanorkar politician from Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. He was a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represented the Warora Assembly Constituency as member of Shiv Sena. He has entered in Congress and given a ticket to for 2019 election from Warora against Hansraj Ahir Because he was not given ticket from Shiv Sena to stand against Hansraj Ahir from Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). The reason for not allowing him the ticket was alliance of both the parties of BJP and Shiv Sena.Balubhau Dhanorkar is the newly elected member of loksabha from chandrapur constituency.He belongs to the Indian National Congress. He is the only candidate for Indian national Congress to be elected as MP from Maharashtra. He was nominated as loksabha candidate after resigning MLA from shivsena and joined Indian National Congress.
Saoli was one of the 288 assembly constituencies of Maharashtra a western state of India. Saoli was also part of Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency.
The 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election was held on 21 October 2019 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. After a 61.4% turnout in the election, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (SHS) won a majority. Following differences over the government formation, the alliance was dissolved, precipitating a political crisis. Since a council of ministers had not been formed after no party could manage to form the government, President's rule was imposed in the state. On 23 November 2019, Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister. However both of them resigned on 26 November 2019 before the floor test and on 28 November 2019, Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress formed the government under a new alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), with Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister.
A political crisis in the Indian state of Maharashtra occurred after the 2019 legislative assembly election over the formation of a new state government. With no political party able to prove their majority in the legislative assembly, president's rule was imposed in the state following a recommendation by the Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari.