Chhagan Bhujbal is an Indian politician from Maharashtra,who is the member of current Government of Maharashtra,headed by Eknath Shinde. Currently he is a member of 15th Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra from Yeola Assembly. He also served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1999 –December 2003 and 2009 - 2010. He earlier also served as Minister of Public Works Department and Minister of Home Affairs in Government of Maharashtra.
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.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal is an Indian political party,mainly based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Kirit Somaiya is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who represented Mumbai North-East in the 16th Lok Sabha and the 13th Lok Sabha. He is currently appointed as the vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party's Maharashtra unit.
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.
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.
Sunil Panjabrao Deshmukh is the Member of Legislative Assembly from the constituency of Amravati,Maharashtra,India. He is a member of Indian National Congress (INC). He is a former Minister of State for Finance and Planning,Public Works and Energy in Government of Maharashtra and was also the guardian minister for Amravati and Bhandara districts of Vidarbha,Maharashtra from 2004–2009. He has also served as the ex-officio Vice-Chairman of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board's holding company and was the co-chairman of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd.
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.
Raigad is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. It is a new constituency,created in 2008 as a part of the implementation of the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. The constituency first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament was Anant Geete of Shiv Sena who was also re-elected in the 2014 elections. In the 2019 General Elections Sunil Tatkare of NCP won the seat by margin of 31,438 votes defeating the incumbent Geetee who was also a Union Cabinet minister.
Dr Padmasinha Bajirao Patil is a former member of 15th Lok Sabha,the lower house of Parliament of India.
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.
Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is a senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party. Deshmukh served as the Minister for Home Affairs in Government of Maharashtra between 2019 and 2021. Deshmukh resigned in 2021 as the Home Minister of Maharashtra due to allegations of money laundering and other charges by Param Bir Singh. He was arrested by ED and was kept in custody for 1 year before being released by a court order.
The Adarsh Housing Society is a 31-story building constructed on prime real estate in Colaba,Bombay,for the welfare of war Widows and personnel of India's Ministry of Defence. Over a period of several years,politicians,bureaucrats and military officers allegedly conspired to bend several rules concerning land ownership,zoning,floor space index and membership getting themselves flats allotted in this cooperative society at below-market rates.
V. K. Ebrahim Kunju is an Indian politician,who was the former Minister for Public Works of the Government of Kerala. He represented the Kalamassery constituency in Kerala from 2011 to 2021.
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.
Bhaskar Jadhav is an Indian politician and former Minister for Labour &Special Assistance,Maharashtra State. He is also the ex-president of Maharashtra state unit of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and MLA of Maharashtra from Guhagar. Formerly he also served as Minister of State for Urban Development,Forest,Port,Sports,Parliamentary Affairs,Youth Welfare,Ex-Defence Welfare,Law &Order,Fisheries and Guardian Minister of Ratnagiri.
Ashish Ranjeet Deshmukh is the member of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He 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.
Nawab Malik is an Indian politician who served as the Minority Development,Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister of Maharashtra and also the guardian minister of Gondia &Parbhani. He is the National Spokesperson and Mumbai President of the Nationalist Congress Party.
Sanjay Baburao Bansode is an Indian politician from Nationalist Congress Party,who is the cabinet minister of Maharashtra from 14 July 2023 for sports,youth welfare and ports. He also served as the minister of state from 30 December 2019 to 29 June 2022 in the Uddhav Thackeray government. He is a member of Nationalist Congress Party from Latur district.
Sunil Tingre is a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party and a Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA),elected from Vadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency in Pune city.
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