Sharad Govindrao Pawar is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for four terms and has also served in the Union Council Of Ministers as the Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of P.V Narsimha Rao and 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 NCP was split by his own nephew,Ajit Pawar. He leads the his facation NCP delegation 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. It refers to the Ajit Pawar faction after the 2023 split in the party when the SC granted the original party name and symbol to the Nationalist Congress Party. It was one of the major political parties in Maharashtra and was a recognised state party in Nagaland and Kerala. In July 2023,majority of the elected MLAs and MLCs of the party led by Ajit Pawar joined the National Democratic Alliance government,however,all MPs except two are expected to remain loyal to Sharad Pawar. This caused a direct split between the Ajit Pawar-led faction and the founder and president Sharad Pawar who formed the Nationalist Congress Party after EC recognised the Ajit Pawar faction as the original party.
Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Maharashtra twice from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 26 June 1988. He was the finance minister of India from 1988 to 1989 in Rajiv Gandhi ministry. He also served as the home minister of India twice,from 31 December 1984 to 12 March 1986 in the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet,and from 21 June 1991 to 16 May 1996 in the P. V. Narasimha Rao cabinet.
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He served as the last Chief Minister of Bombay State and the first of Maharashtra after latter was created by the division of Bombay state. His last significant ministerial post was as the Deputy Prime Minister of India in the short lived Charan Singh government in 1979.
ILS Law College,or in its full name Indian Law Society's Law College,is a government-aided law school in Pune,India. It was established in 1924 and offers courses that include three-year and five-year degrees. ILS is located on Law College Road,Pune. The college was aided by the Ford Foundation.
Koregaon is a census town and headquarters for the surrounding Koregaon Taluka in the Satara subdivision of Satara district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated on the NH-548C Satara-Baitul National Highway about 18 km east of Satara city,about 120 km from Pune and 267 km from Mumbai. The Koregaon railway station,situated on the Pune - Miraj line,is 2 kilometers outside the town. Koregaon Bus Station is conveniently located just a stone's throw away from the railway station.
Gulabrao Raghunathrao Patil was a Renowned Co-operative Leader,Member of Parliament (MP)-Rajya Sabha India,Maharashtra State Sangli from 1966 to 1978,Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) of Maharashtra 1983−87 and president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress(I) Committee 1981−82. Patil also served as chairman of Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank in Mumbai from 1980 to 1982,chairman of Sangli District Cooperative Bank Sangli and Secretary of National Co-operative Union of India (NCUI),New Delhi. Gulabrao Patil was regarded as a Maratha Strongman in Maharashtra politics in the 1970s and 1980s. Year 2020-2021 is going to celebrate as Birth Centenary Year of Late. Gulabrao Patil (1921-2021)
Anu Aga is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and social worker who led Thermax,an energy and environment engineering business,as its chairperson from 1996 to 2004. She was among the eight richest Indian women,and in 2007 was part of 40 richest Indians by net worth according to Forbes magazine. She was awarded with the Mumbai Women of the Decade Achievers Award by ALL Ladies League,the all ladies wing of ASSOCHAM.
Hemant Kamlakar Karkare,was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In 2009,he was posthumously given the Ashoka Chakra,India's highest peacetime gallantry decoration.
Ashok Kamte AC was an Indian police officer,serving as the Additional Commissioner of the Mumbai Police supervising the Eastern region. He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He was posthumously given the Ashoka Chakra on 26 January 2009.
Ashokrao Shankarrao Chavan is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is son of ex-Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan. He was one of the most influential leaders of Indian National Congress in Maharashtra but later resigned and joined Bhartiya Janata Party on 13 Feb 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.
Keshavrao Marutirao Jedhe (Deshmukh) (21 April 1896 –12 November 1959) was an Indian independence activist and politician from Pune. He served as a leading figure in the Indian National Congress,and in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement during the independence. The famous Swargate chowk in Pune is named after him.
Vijaysinh Shankarao Mohite-Patil is a politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and Member of Parliament (MP) for Madha in Maharashtra since the 2014 general election till the 2019 general election. He is member of Nationalist Congress Party.
Vijay alias Balasaheb Bhausaheb Thorat is an Indian politician who served as the revenue minister in Maharashtra state. He also served as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Thorat is a senior member of the Congress Party. He is an MLA from Sangamner constituency.
Sulochana Mahadev Kadam,better known as Sulochana Chavan,was an Indian singer who was known for her lavanis in Marathi.
Bhikajirao Jijaba Khatal-Patil,popularly known as Dada or Khatal Saheb was an Indian politician. He was a senior Maharashtra leader and a veteran Congressman. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra for over 20 years,also holding various Cabinet ministries in the Maharashtra Government. He represented the Sangamner constituency of Maharashtra and was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. In 1985 he retired from politics. He was elected to the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha from Sangamner during 1962,1967,1972 and 1980 elections.
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.
Rama Chandra Khuntia,usually known as R. C. Khuntia,is an Indian politician. he was a Member of the Rajya Sabha from Odisha from 1998 to 2004 and 2008 to 2014.He serves as the General Secretary of Indian National Congress in charge of Telangana. &the current chairman of International Migrant Workers Working Group of the Geneva based. BWWI. He has many times represented in UN,ILO,MFA,BWI &Solidarity Centrs meetings on action plan for migrant workers. He has also organised Asian Migrant workers in India,Germany,UK &Brussels.
Mukta Tilak was an Indian politician. She was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Kasba Peth in the 2019 state elections as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Bapusaheb Tukaram Pathare is an Indian politician and a former member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He served as the first corporator of Kharadi and was a member of the district council of Pune. He was a chairperson of the Pune Municipal Corporation. He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2009 from the Vadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency.
