Sumit Wankhede (born 1984) [1] is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is an MLA from Arvi Assembly constituency in Wardha district. He won the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election representing the Bharatiya Janata Party. [2]
Wankhede is from Arvi, Wardha district, Maharashtra. He is the son of Kishor Wankhede. He completed his graduation in engineering at the Maharashtra Academy of Engineering, Aalandi road, Pune, which is affiliated with Pune University, Pune in 2007. [1] He also has a post graduate degree in governance. He worked as a personal assistant to the then deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and made his successful electoral debut in 2024 election. [3]
Wankhede won from Arvi Assembly constituency representing the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He polled 101,397 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Mayura Amar Kale of the Nationalist Congress Party (SP), by a margin of 39,574 votes. [4] [5] He was in-charge of BJP's Lok Sabha elections in Wardha district. [3]
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. He is a member of Legislative Council of Maharashtra.
Ajit Anantrao Pawar is an Indian politician serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra along with Eknath Shinde since 5 December 2024. He is the longest serving Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra non-consecutively. He has served this position for 6 terms within various governments. He has worked as deputy chief minister within the cabinets of Prithviraj Chavan, Devendra Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde.
Ganesh Ramchandra Naik is an Indian politician. He is the Bharatiya Janata Party member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 150-Airoli Assembly constituency. He represented Thane constituency in the past, and was the Thane Guardian Minister in the state government. He was the minister of Labour, Excise and Environment in the previous government.
Arvi Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency is one of the four Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Wardha district.
Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 5 December 2024, and previously held this position for two terms from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, alongside Ajit Pawar in the Eknath Shinde government. Besides this, from 2019 to 2022, he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He was the President of BJP's Maharashtra state unit from 2013 to 2015. He became Chief Minister at the age of 44, making him the second-youngest in Maharashtra's history after Sharad Pawar.
Dileep Kamble is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was an MLA representing Bharatiya Janata Party in 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Pune Cantonment from 2014 to 2019.
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Eknath Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician who is serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra since December 2024 alongside Ajit Pawar. 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.
Dr. Ashish Ranjeet Deshmukh is the member of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He is representing the Savner Assembly Constituency. He rejoined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2023. Deshmukh is the son of former president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee and former Maharashtra minister Ranjeet Deshmukh. In December 2013, Deshmukh had undertaken an indefinite fast to press for formation of a separate Vidarbha state.
Chandrashekhar Krishnarao Bawankule is President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra and Member of 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Kamptee Vidhan Sabha. He was member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly & Minister for Energy, New and Renewable Energy Maharashtra, Ministry of State Excise (Maharashtra), and also appointed Nagpur Guardian Minister on 26 December 2014.
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.
Prof.(Dr). Ashok Ramaji Uike is an Indian politician & three term MLA. He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Ralegaon constituency in the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was sworn in as Minister of Tribal Development in Devendra Fadnavis cabinet in Dec 2024.
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Abhimanyu Dattatray Pawar is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He completed his Graduation degree in B.com. from Dayanand Commerce College, Latur. A post graduate degree in master of personal management from Savitribai Phule Pune University. He was Personal Assistant to Chief minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis, in office from 2014 to 2019. being one of leading officers on special duty (OSD), the personal assistant (PA) and a leading and well-known member of the Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) from Latur district.
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Dadarao Yadavraoji Keche is an Indian politician. Currently serving as Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra. He has served as Member of 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Arvi Assembly constituency. In the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, he beat Kale Amar Sharadrao with the margin of 12,467 votes. In April 2020, he broke the COVID-19 lockdown rules in India by celebrating his birthday with 200 people for which a First information report was registered against him.
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