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.
Narayan Tatu Rane is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He currently serves as Minister of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises in the Second Modi ministry. He has previously held Cabinet Ministry positions for Industry,Port,Employment and Self-employment;Revenue;and Industry in the Government of Maharashtra.
Ramdas Gangaram Kadam is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was Member of the Legislative Assembly from Khed Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ratnagiri District,Maharashtra,India as a member of Shiv Sena. He has been elected consecutively for 4 terms in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for 1990,1995,1999 and 2004. He got elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Shiv Sena Party in Jan. 2010. He was Cabinet Minister of Environment in Maharashtra State Government and guardian minister of Nanded district.
Omprakash Babarao Kadu is an independent Member of the Legislative Assembly from Achalpur,Maharashtra,India. Achalpur assembly constituency is a part of Amravati. He has been elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for four consecutive terms from 2004 to 2019. He is currently serving jail for two-years term in a case against him.
Ajit Anantrao Pawar is an Indian politician who has served as,alongside Devendra Fadnavis,the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2 July,2023. He served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 2022 to 2023,and was a Member of the Parliament in the Lok Sabha in 1991,representing Baramati constituency. He has also been a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly since 1991,representing Baramati constituency.
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.
Subhash Desai is an Indian politician and leader of Shiv Sena from Maharashtra. He is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Council. He had represented Goregaon in 1990,2004 and 2009. Desai took charge as the Cabinet Minister of Industries in 2014. He was also the guardian minister of Aurangabad district.
Eknath Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician who is serving as the 20th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 30 June 2022. He is also serving as the Leader of Shiv Sena since February 2023 and the Leader of the House,Maharashtra Legislative Assembly since July 2022. 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.
Gulab Raghunath Patil is a politician and incumbent Water supply and Sanitation minister of the Maharashtra state. He is a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA),the state's lower house representing rural Jalgaon constituency. He is a member of Shiv Sena party.
Sanjay Dulichand Rathod is a Shiv Sena politician from Yavatmal district,Maharashtra. He is a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Digras-Darwha Assembly Constituency.
Rathod is a strong Shiv Sena leader in Vidarbha &belong 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.
Deepak Vasant Kesarkar is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He is the Cabinet Minister for Ministry of Education and Ministry of Marathi Language. He represents the Sawantwadi Assembly Constituency. He belongs to Shivsena. He was appointed Maharashtra's minister of state for Finance,Rural Development in December,2014. He is also guardian minister of Sindhudurg district.
Ravindra Dattaram Waikar is a Shiv Sena politician from Maharashtra. He is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Jogeshwari East Assembly Constituency. He has been elected to Vidhan Sabha for three consecutive terms in 2009,2014 and 2019. He was appointed Maharashtra's minister of state,Higher &Technical Education in December,2014. He was given the Housing,Higher &Technical Education portfolio. He was also given responsibility of being guardian minister of Ratnagiri district.
Shambhuraj Shivajirao Desai is an Indian politician and Shiv Sena leader from Satara district,Maharashtra. He is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Patan Assembly Constituency. He had been elected to Vidhan Sabha for three terms in 2004,2014 and 2019.
Abdul Sattar Abdul Nabi is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was briefly a minister in 2014 in the Congress government in Maharashtra. In 2019 he left Congress and joined Shiv Sena. He is a three term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Sillod constituency. He served as the state's Cabinet Minister for Animal Husbandry.
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.
Sureshbhau Dagadu Khade is an Indian politician. He is incumbent Cabinet Minister in Government of Maharashtra in Eknath Shinde ministry. He is Labour Minister of Maharashtra and Guardian Minister of Sangli district. He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Miraj,Maharashtra in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is four term member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He was Minister of Social Justice in Devendra Fadnavis cabinet.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi or Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi,abbreviated as MVA,is a state-level political coalition formed after the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray of SHS (UBT),then Shiv Sena,Sharad Pawar of the NCP and Sonia Gandhi of the INC,along with the support from the Samajwadi Party,PWPI,CPI(M) and several other political parties including Independent MLAs. MVA is currently the official opposition in Maharashtra Legislature.
The 2022 Maharashtra political crisis began on 21 June 2022 in the Indian state of Maharashtra when Eknath Shinde,along with several other MLAs of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition moved to Surat in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-governed Gujarat,throwing the coalition into a crisis.
