Shiv Sena is a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray. The party split in 2022 into Shiv Sena and Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena but was regained by the Eknath Shinde led Faction. Its headquarters is situated in Thane,Maharashtra.
Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi is a regional political party in the Vasai-Virar region of Maharashtra. It was originally known as Vasai Vikas Aaghadi. The party is lead and founded by Hitendra Thakur who was a one-time member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on an Indian National Congress ticket and two time independent MLA before founding the party.
Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray is an Indian politician who served as the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2019 to 2022. He was the president of Shiv Sena prior to its split in 2022,and leader of Shiv Sena.
Hitendra Vishnu Thakur is an Indian politician from Virar,Maharashtra,India. He is the president of Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi,political party in the Vasai-Virar region of Maharashtra,India. He is the incumbent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Vasai in Palghar district of Maharashtra. His family controls the Viva Group of Companies and Viva Trust which owns the Viva College located in Virar.
Rajendra Sukhanand Patni is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Karanja constituency from Washim District in Maharashtra. In 2014 Legislative Assembly Elections of Maharashtra,Rajendra Patni won from Karanja Constituency. He was also the member of legislative Council from 1997 to 2003. He won the 2004 Legislative Assembly elections from Karanja. In 2009 he lost election and it is said that the loss was due to the oppose by some Shiv Sena leaders itself and due to increasing casteism as he belongs to minority. He is said to be very studious politician continuously doing positive changes for Washim District. In September 2011,he denied for working for shiv sena in the upcoming municipal council elections due to some internal problems with other party leaders of the districts and formed his own union of candidates known as "Washim Zilla Vikas Aaghadi". Shiv Sena suffered a great setback and loss due to his exit as he took with him a huge number of party workers and the votes of the masses.
Ganeshrao Nagorao Dudhgaonkar is an Indian politician from Parbhani,Maharashtra. He was member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India representing Parbhani constituency. He was also member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 1980 and 1985 representing Basmath and Jintur respectively. He has been into Indian National Congress,Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party ahead of the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election he joined Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi.
Vasant Shankar Davkhare was an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party. He had been the Deputy Chairman of the Maharashtra Legislative Council since 1998.
Maharashtra is a state in the western region of India and is India's third-largest state by area. It has over 112 million inhabitants and 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,sub-district (Taluka) councils,and the village parish councils. The politics of the state are dominated by the numerically strong Maratha–Kunbi community. There are national and regional parties in the state,serving different demographics,such as those based on religion,caste,urban and rural residents.
Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.
Kshitij Thakur is an Indian politician. He currently holds the office of Member of Legislative Assembly for the constituency of Nala Sopara in the state of Maharashtra,India. He is the son of Hitendra Thakur,four times MLA from Vasai. He belongs to the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi party which has a strong base in the region of Vasai and Virar in Palghar district of Maharashtra.
The Indian state of Maharashtra has a bicameral legislature,comprising two houses. The lower house,known as the Legislative Assembly,is directly elected by the people and is the more powerful of the two houses. The upper house,known as the Legislative Council is elected indirectly by several specially designated electorates.
The Mahārāṣṭra Vidhāna Sabhā or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated in the Nariman Point area of South Mumbai in the capital Mumbai. Presently,288 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from the single-seat constituencies. The members of the upper house,the Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad are indirectly elected through an electoral college.
Although a parliamentary democracy,Indian politics has increasing 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 created in the 1960s also helped to create and consolidate this 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.
Eknath Sambhaji Shinde is an Indian politician currently serving as the 20th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 30 June 2022. He is also serving as the Chairman of Shiv Sena since 18 February 2023. He was earlier the Cabinet Minister of Urban Development and Public Works in the Cabinet of Uddhav Thackeray from 2019 to 2022. He is a Member of Legislative Assembly from Kopri-Pachpakhadi constituency of Thane,Maharashtra since 2009.
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. Since a council of ministers had not been formed after no party could manage to form the government,President's rule was imposed in the state. On 23 November 2019,Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister. However both of them resigned on 26 November 2019 before the floor test and on 28 November 2019,Shiv Sena,NCP,and Congress formed the government under a new alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA),with Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister. Subsequently,Uddhav Thackeray had to resign due to the Shiv Sena being split which was led by Eknath Shinde. Eknath Shinde is currently the Chief Minister with a BJP-Shiv Sena alliance with BJP's Devendra Fadnavis as the deputy Chief Minister.
Rajesh Raghunath Patil is an Indian politician in the Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi party. He was elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Boisar on 24 October 2019.
A political crisis in the Indian state of Maharashtra occurred on 21 October 2019 after the declaration of results of the 2019 legislative assembly election over the formation of a new state government. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party Shiv Sena alliance crossed the majority of 145 seats needed in the assembly by winning a total of 161 seats in the alliance. Individually BJP won 105 and SHS won 56 seats. The Opposition INC-NCP Alliance with 106 seats did not reach the majority mark. Individually INC won 44 and NCP won 54 seats.
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 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 largest alliance in Maharashtra Legislative Council,and also the official opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
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. The group later moved to Guwahati in another BJP-governed state,Assam. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut accused BJP of causing the revolt within Shiv Sena and attempting to topple the MVA-coalition government,implicitly mentioned later in a remark by BJP's Sushil Modi. Eknath Shinde led a revolt against Uddhav Thackeray because he disagreed with Thackeray's decision not to end the alliance with Maha Vikas Aaghadi,despite requests from two-thirds of elected Shiv Sena members. Shinde's faction ultimately succeeded in taking control of the party and forming a new government in Maharashtra with the support of the BJP. On 29 June,Uddhav Thackeray,Chief Minister of Maharashtra,resigned from the post as well as a MLC member while speaking live on social media ahead of a no-confidence motion on 29 June 2022. The resignation of Thackeray saw the cancellation of the floor test,with Shinde taking stake of the government as the Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis as the Deputy Chief Minister on 30 June.
The Members of 14th Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra were elected in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election,with results announced on 21 October 2019.
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