Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar is an Indian politician. He served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for four terms and in the Union Council of Ministers as the Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of P.V. Narsimha Rao as well as the 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.
The Nationalist Congress Party is one of the state parties in India and is one of the major political parties in Maharashtra with a recognised state party status in Nagaland and Kerala. The party has its presence in legislative assemblies of Maharashtra, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh, with being in the governing coalition in all of these states. Besides this, the party is also part of the current governing coalition National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Tariq Anwar is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress (INC), and a Member of Parliament representing Katihar in Bihar, India. He served as the Minister of State of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries between 2012 and 2014.
The Baramati Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 parliamentary constituencies in the state of Maharashtra, India. Located in the Pune district, it comprises six Vidhan Sabha segments: Daund, Indapur, Baramati, Purandar, Bhor, and Khadakwasala. The constituency has been a stronghold of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Pawar family since the 1960s. Sharad Pawar, the founder of the NCP, represented the seat from 1996 to 2004. Since 2009, his daughter Supriya Sule has held the seat, winning consecutive elections in 2009, 2014, 2019, and 2024.
Jayant Rajaram Patil is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He has been representing Islampur in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for more than three decades. He was the Cabinet minister of the Water Resources Department in Uddhav Thackeray ministry. Earlier, he served as the Rural Development Minister, the Finance Minister and the Home Minister of Maharashtra.
Supriya Sule is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing Baramati since 2009, leader of Nationalist Congress Party (SP) in Lok Sabha since 2014 and the Working National President of Nationalist Congress Party since 2023. Previously, she served as the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, she launched a state-wide campaign against female foeticide. Recently, she has been honored with Mumbai Women of the Decade Achievers Award by All Ladies League for social service. She is the daughter of Sharad Pawar, chief of Nationalist Congress Party (SP).
Ajit Ashatai Anantrao Pawar is an Indian politician serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra along with Eknath Shinde since 5 December 2024. He previously served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra under Shinde alongside Fadnavis from 2023 to 2024. He is the longest serving Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra non-consecutively.
Madha Lok Sabha constituency (43) is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the Presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). As of the 2024 elections, the constituency's current MP is Dhairyasheel Patil] from NCP(SP).
Sameer Magan Bhujbal is an Indian politician and a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party. He was member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing Nashik in Maharashtra state in India from 2009 to 2014.
Dr Padmasinha Bajirao Patil is a former member of 15th Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India.
Shrimant Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosle is an Indian politician serving as a member of the Loksabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, from Maharashtra since 2024 from Satara. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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.
Fouzia Khan or Fauzia Tahseen Khan, also known as Fauzia Khan, is an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament from Maharashtra. She is the National president of Nationalist Mahila Congress, an Ex-Minister of State of Government of Maharashtra in India. She was two time M.L.C. i.e. member of Legislative Council the upper house of Maharashtra Legislature. Convent-educated Khan is the first Muslim woman in the state who has served as minister in the Maharashtra government.
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.
Sanjay Ramchandra Patil is a politician from Tasgaon of Sangli district of Maharashtra state in India.
Bharati Pravin Pawar is an Indian politician. She served as the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare of India from 7 July 2021 to 11 June 2024 and Minister of State for Tribal Affairs from 7 December 2023 to 11 June 2024. She was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Dindori Loksabha Constituency, Maharashtra in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Rohit Rajendra Pawar is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency in Maharashtra, India. He belongs to the politically influential Pawar family.
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.
Prithviraj Chavan was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on 11 November 2010. The following is his cabinet. The government consisted of Chavan's Congress party and the Nationalist Congress Party.
The Maha Yuti, formed in 2014, is a political coalition in Maharashtra, India. Currently the alliance consists of three major parties - the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party ― along with smaller partners such as Republican Party of India (Athawale), Rashtriya Samaj Paksha and many others.
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