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Jyoti Gaikwad
Jyoti Eknath Gaikwad is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. She is a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 2024, representing Dharavi Assembly constituency as a member of the Indian National Congress. Jyoti Eknath Gaikwad elected to the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the first time from the Dharavi Assembly Constituency reserved for Scheduled Castes in the 2024 Assembly Elections. Earlier, Jyoti Gaikwad's sister and sitting MP Varsha Gaikwad was elected for four consecutive terms from Dharavi assembly constituency. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Varsha Gaikwad became an MP from the Mumbai North constituency. Jyoti Gaikwad belongs to the Ambedkarite Buddhist community. Her father Eknath Gaikwad was also a three-time MP. She is the only Buddhist woman MLA in the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Apart from this, she is also the only woman MLA of Maha Vikas Aghadi. In the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Jyoti Gaikwad secured 70,727 votes a ...
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Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (ISO: ''Mahārāṣṭra Vidhāna Sabhā'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituencies. The Assembly meets at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai, though the winter session is held in Nagpur. Along with the Maharashtra Legislative Council, it comprises the legislature of Maharashtra. The presiding officer of the Assembly is the Speaker. Members of the Assembly are directly elected by the people of Maharashtra through elections held every five years, unless the Assembly is dissolved earlier. The current Assembly was elected in October 2019. List of assemblies The following is the list of all the Maharashtra Legislative Assemblies (1961–present): Office bearers Sessions The budget session and the monsoon session are convened in Mumbai whereas the winter session is convened in the auxiliary capital Nagpur Nagpur (; ISO 1 ...
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Dharavi Assembly Constituency
Dharavi Assembly constituency is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha located in the Mumbai City district. Overview Dharavi (constituency number 178) is one of the 10 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Mumbai City district. Number of electorates in 2009 was 268,779 (male 152,013, female 116,766) 113,732 are voters from minority community. It is a part of the Mumbai South Central (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other assembly constituencies, viz Sion Koliwada, Wadala, Mahim, from Mumbai City district and Chembur and Anushakti Nagar from Mumbai Suburban district Mumbai Suburban district (Marathi language, Marathi: ''Mumbai Upanagar Jilhā'') is the second most populous Districts of Maharashtra, district of Maharashtra in the Konkan Division. With its administrative headquarters in Bandra, the district co .... Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2024 2019 2014 2009 200 ...
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Varsha Gaikwad
Varsha Eknath Gaikwad (born 3 February 1975) is an Indian politician serving as a member of parliament, Lok Sabha. She is the President of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee. Earlier, she was a four term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly ( MLA) represented the Dharavi Assembly Constituency in Mumbai (2004-2024). She served as the Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra from 30 December 2019 to 29 June 2022. Gaikwad won the Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. She defeated BJP candidate Adv. Ujjwal Nikam. She is one of the three Buddhist MPs in the 18th Lok Sabha. Positions held * 2004 – 2009: Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (1st term) * 2009 – 2014: Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (2nd term) **2009 - 2010: State Minister for Medical Education, Higher and Technical Education, Tourism, Special Assistance **2010 – 2014: Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development, Government of Maharashtra * ...
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Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern Nationalism, nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom, and significantly influenced other Decolonization, anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire. The INC is a "big tent" party that has been described as sitting on the Centrism, centre of the Indian politics, Indian political spectrum. The party held its first session in 1885 in Mumbai, Bombay where Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, W.C. Bonnerjee presided over it. After Indian independence in 1947, Congress eme ...
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2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Election
The 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections were held on 2024 elections in India, 20 November 2024 to elect all 288 members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, state's Legislative Assembly. The turnout for the election was 66.05%, the highest since 1995 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 1995. The BJP-led Maha Yuti alliance won a landslide victory, winning 235 seats. None of the parties in the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance won the necessary number of seats to obtain the position of leader of opposition, a first in six decades. The BJP leadership finalized Devendra Fadnavis as the Maharashtra Chief Minister post at a key meeting held on 4 December 2024 and he took an oath as the List of chief ministers of Maharashtra, Chief Minister for the third time, on 5 December 2024. Background The tenure of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly was set to conclude on 26 November. The 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, last Assembly elections in Maharashtra t ...
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Ambedkarite
Ambedkarism is called as the teaching, ideology or philosophy of B.R. Ambedkar, an Indian economist, barrister, social reformer, and the first of Minister of Law and Justice in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. Ambedkarism includes special focus on subjects such as fraternity, democracy, communal electorates, conversion out of Hinduism, political power, rule of law, Navayana, among others. An Ambedkarite is one who follows the philosophy of Ambedkar. Icons of Ambedkarite ideology also include Periyar, Jyotirao Phule and others. Social philosophy According to B. R. Ambedkar "Society is always composed of Classes." Their foundations could be different. A person in a society is always a member of a class, whether it is economic, intellectual, or social. This is a universal truth, and early Hindu culture could not have been an exception to this rule, and we know it wasn't. So, which class was the first to transform into a caste, because class and caste are, in a sense, next-do ...
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Buddhist
Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century Before the Common Era, BCE. It is the Major religious groups, world's fourth-largest religion, with about 500 million followers, known as Buddhists, who comprise four percent of the global population. It arose in the eastern Gangetic plain as a movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread throughout much of Asia. Buddhism has subsequently played a major role in Asian culture and spirituality, eventually spreading to Western world, the West in the 20th century. According to tradition, the Buddha instructed his followers in a path of bhavana, development which leads to Enlightenment in Buddhism, awakening and moksha, full liberation from ''Duḥkha, dukkha'' (). He regarded this path as a Middle Way between extremes su ...
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Eknath Gaikwad
Eknath Gaikwad (1 January 1940 – 28 April 2021) was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha and the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He died from COVID-19 in 2021. Personal life Gaikwad belonged to an Marathi Buddhists, Ambedkarite Buddhist family. Gaikwad's daughter is Varsha Gaikwad, who is a four term Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and a ex-Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra.- - Career He represented the Mumbai South Central (Lok Sabha Constituency), Mumbai South Central constituency of Mumbai. He lost the seat to Rahul Shewale in 2014. He has been three times a Member of Legislative Assembly (India), Member of Legislative Assembly from Dharavi (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Dharavi and also twice state minister of Maharashtra state cabinet. Since 1985, he has represented Dharavi which is Asia's largest slum. Positions held * 1985-1990: Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 1990-1995: Me ...
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Maha Vikas Aghadi
The Maha Vikas Aghadi (; abbreviated as MVA), is a state-level political alliance of Centrism, centre to Centre-left politics, centre-left political parties in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is one of the two major political alliances in Maharashtra. The alliance was formed under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray of Shiv Sena (UBT), SHS (UBT) (then Shiv Sena), Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar, NCP(SP) and Sonia Gandhi of the Indian National Congress, INC, along with the support from the Peasants and Workers Party of India, PWPI, Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPI(M) and several other political parties. MVA is currently the official opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council. Most of the MVA constituents are members of the Indian National Congress-led Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance at Pan-Indianism, pan-India level. The MVA alliance won a record breaking 31 seats out of 48 seats in the 2024 Indian general elec ...
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List Of Chief Ministers Of Maharashtra
The chief minister of Maharashtra (IAST: Mahārāṣṭrāce Mukhyamaṃtrī) is the head of the executive branch of the government of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Following elections to the Legislative Assembly, the governor invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government and appoints the chief minister. If the appointee is not a member of either the Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council of Maharashtra, then the Constitution stipulates that they need to be elected within six months of being sworn in. The office of the CM is coterminous with the concurrent Assembly provided the CM commands confidence in the house and hence does not exceed five years. However, it is subject to no term limits. Durga Das Basu. ''Introduction to the Constitution of India''. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. . Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for ...
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Maharashtra MLAs 2024–2029
The Members of 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (ISO: ''Mahārāṣṭra Vidhāna Sabhā'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituenci ... were elected in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, with results announced on 23 November 2024. Office bearers Members of Legislative Assembly References Notes {{Current Indian assemblies Maharashtra Legislature Maharashtra ...
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