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Raigad (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Raigad is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) 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. History Raigad was historically called Kolaba, and was the capital of the Maratha origin Indian king Chhatrapati Shivaji. Assembly segments At present, Raigad Lok Sabha constituency comprises six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments in 2 district's. These segments are: Pen, Alibag and Shrivardhan Vidhan Sabha ...
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Nationalist Congress Party
The Nationalist Congress Party is one of the List of political parties in India#State parties, state parties in India and is one of the major political parties in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra with a recognised state party status in Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Nagaland and Kerala Legislative Assembly, Kerala. The party has its presence in legislative assemblies of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra, Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, 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 original incarnation of the party was founded in 1999 by Sharad Pawar, P. A. Sangma, P.A. Sangma, and Tariq Anwar (politician), Tariq Anwar after a split within the Indian National Congress, Congress. After major disagreements between top party leaders ...
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2014 Indian General Elections
General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 election. Around 23.1 million or 2.71% of the total eligible voters were aged 18–19 years. A total of 8,251 candidates contested the 543 elected Lok Sabha seats. The average election turnout over all nine phases was around 66.40%, the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections until 2019 election. The results were declared on 16 May, 15 days before the 15th Lok Sabha completed its constitutional mandate on 31 May 2014. The counting exercise was held at 989 counting centers. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received 31% of the vote and won 282 seats, while its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won a total of 336 seats. Although the Indian National Congress (INC) was defeated by a landslide, the BJP's vote share was the l ...
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Shiv Sena (UBT)
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) (ISO 15919, ISO: ; ; SS (UBT)) is a Hindutva-based, Marathi people, Marathi Regionalism (politics), regionalist, Indian nationalism, nationalist Politics in India, political party formed in 2022 under the leadership of former List of Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray. It was allotted a new symbol by the Election Commission of India, Election Commission, separate from the main Shiv Sena (1966–2022), Shiv Sena. It was one of two separate Political faction, factions, the other being the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena, led by Eknath Shinde, formed as a result of the 2022 Maharashtra political crisis, until the Election Commissioner of India, Election Commission recognised the faction led by Eknath Shinde as the legitimate structure of Shiv Sena in February 2023. Thackeray has filed petition against the decision of the ECI at the Supreme Court of India, Supreme Court in New Delhi. Formation The party ...
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Yogesh Kadam
Yogesh Ramdas Kadam is an Indian politician serving as Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Dapoli Vidhan Sabha constituency as a member of Shiv Sena Shiv Sena (1966–2022) (; ; SS) was a right-wing Marathi regionalist Hindutva-based political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, who was later succeeded by Uddhav Thackeray. The party is split into two parties: the Uddha .... Positions held * 2019: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly References External links Shivsena Home Page Maharashtra MLAs 2019–2024 Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Shiv Sena politicians {{Maharashtra-SS-politician-stub ...
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Ratnagiri District
Ratnagiri district (Marathi pronunciation: �ət̪n̪aːɡiɾiː is a district in the state of Maharashtra, India. The administrative headquarter of the district is located in the town of Ratnagiri. The district is 11.34% urban. The district is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west, Sindhudurg district to the south, Raigad district to the north and Satara, Sangli and Kolhapur districts to the east. This district is part of Konkan division. History From pre-Christian times until 1312, the area – like the entire region – was ruled by various Buddhist and Hindu rulers. The first state known by name was the Mauryan Empire, the last non-Muslim dynasty was the Yadavas of Devagiri. After decades of military clashes with Muslim rulers in northern India, the region was occupied by Muslim armies between 1312 and 1470. From 1500 on there was fierce fighting for rule on the coast between the Muslim rulers and the Portuguese. After that, various Muslim dynasties ruled until 1658 ...
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Bharatshet Gogawale
Bharat Maruti Gogawale (born 1963) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is a four time MLA from Mahad Assembly constituency in Raigad District. He has been elected for four consecutive terms in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly winning in 2009, 2014, 2019 and 2024. Early life and education Bharatshet is from Mahad, Raigad District, Maharashtra. He is the son of Gogawale Maruti Krishnaji. He passed Class 8 in 1978 at Shivaji Educational Institute, Multipurpose Technical High School. Career Bharatshet won from Mahad Assembly constituency representing the Shiv Sena Party in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He polled 117,442 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Snehal Manik Jagtap of the Shiv Sena (UBT), by a huge margin of 26,210 votes. He became an MLA for the first time winning the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He retained the seat in the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election and won for a third time in the 2019 As ...
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Aditi Sunil Tatkare
Aditi Varada Sunil Tatkare is an Indian politician belonging to Nationalist Congress Party, who was State Minister of Maharashtra by Shinde government since 2023 and Thackeray Government 2019 - 2022. She is from Roha and she was elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Shrivardhan on 24 October 2019. She took the oath as an MLA on 26 November 2019. Early life Aditi Sunil Tatkare was born in Roha, a town in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, India. She is the daughter of Sunil Tatkare, a politician and the president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra. Her father, Sunil Tatkare, has held various positions, including member of parliament and roles in the Maharashtra government such as handling portfolios in food and civil supplies, water resources, energy, and finance. Aditi pursued her education in Maharashtra, where she developed an interest in social issues and public administration. Her early exposure to politics influenced her care ...
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Mahendra Dalvi
Mahendra Dalvi is an Indian politician serving as Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Alibag Vidhan Sabha constituency as a member of Shiv Sena Shiv Sena (1966–2022) (; ; SS) was a right-wing Marathi regionalist Hindutva-based political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, who was later succeeded by Uddhav Thackeray. The party is split into two parties: the Uddha .... Positions held * 2019: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2024: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly References External links Shivsena Home Page {{DEFAULTSORT:Dalvi, Mahendra Living people Maharashtra MLAs 2019–2024 Shiv Sena politicians Year of birth missing (living people) ...
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Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling political parties by country, ruling political party in India under the incumbent Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics and has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Far-right politics, far-right Paramilitary organization, paramilitary organisation. Its policies adhere to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalism, Hindu nationalist ideology. it is the country's biggest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as State legislature (India), state legislatures. The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by In ...
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Ravisheth Patil
Ravisheth Patil Dagadu (born 11 February 1950) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is a three time member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He was last elected from Pen Assembly constituency representing the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He served as a minister of state from 2004 to 2007 and as a cabinet minister from 2008 to 2009. Early life and education Patil is from Pen, Raigad district, Maharashtra. He is the son of Dagadu Patil. He passed Class 12 and later while studying BA at JSM College, Alibag he dropped out in 1972. Career Patil was first elected as an MLA in the year 2004 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election representing the Indian National Congress. Later, he contested on the Indian National Congress ticket, and lost twice to the Peasants and Workers Party of India (PWPI) candidates in the 2009 and 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. In 2009, he polled 53,141 votes against 60,757 v ...
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Raigad District
Raigad district (), previously Colaba fort, Colaba district, is a district in the Konkan division of Maharashtra, India. The headquarters of the district is Alibag. Other major cities in the district are Panvel, Karjat, Navi Mumbai, Khopoli, Shrivardhan and Mahad. The district was renamed to Raigad fort, Raigad after the fort that was the first capital of the former Maratha Empire, which in turn was renamed from its earlier name - Rairi. The fort is located in the interior regions of the district, in dense forests on a west-facing spur of the Western Ghats of Sahyadri Range. In 2011 the district had a population of 2,634,200, compared to 2,207,929 in 2001. The name was changed in the regime of Chief Minister A. R. Antulay on 1 January 1981. In 2011 urban dwellers had increased to 36.91% from 24.22% in 2001. Alibag is the headquarters of Raigad district. Raigad district's neighbouring districts are Mumbai, Thane districts on North, Pune district on East, Satara district on South ...
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Vidhan Sabha
The State Legislative Assembly, also known as the Vidhan Sabha or the Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in each of the states and certain union territories of India. Members of the legislative assembly are often directly elected to serve five year terms from single-member constituencies. A legislative assembly may be dissolved in a state of emergency, by the governor on request of the chief minister of the respective state or union territory, or if a motion of no confidence is passed against the ruling majority party or coalition. Definition and powers As per the Constitution of India, where there is a unicameral legislature, the legislative body is termed as the legislative assembly. In bicameral jurisdictions, there exists a State Legislative Council. The legislative assembly has the power to create or abolish the legislative council of the respective state or union territory by passing a resolution to that effect by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the memb ...
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