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Satara (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Satara Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India, in Satara district. Assembly segments Presently, Satara Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments: Members of Parliament ^denotes By-polls Election results General elections 1951 General elections 1957 General elections 1962 General elections 1967 General elections 1971 General elections 1977 General elections 1980 General elections 1984 General elections 1989 General elections 1991 General elections 1996 General elections 1998 General elections 1999 General elections 2004 General elections 2009 General elections 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Congress Party- Sharadchandra Pawar
Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History''. Polity, 2010. pp. 9, 25–30; especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining its sovereignty (self-governance) over its perceived homeland to create a nation-state. It holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity, and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power. It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity, based on a combination of shared social characteristics such as culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics (or the government), religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history, and to promote national unity or solidarity. There are variou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 16 and 20 March 1977 to elect the members of the sixth Lok Sabha. The elections took place during the Emergency period, which expired on 21 March 1977, shortly before the final results were announced. The elections resulted in a heavy defeat for the Indian National Congress (R), with the incumbent Prime Minister and INC(R) party leader Indira Gandhi losing her seat in Rae Bareli, while her son Sanjay lost his seat in Amethi. The call for restoration of democracy by revoking the Emergency is considered to be a major reason for the sweeping victory for the opposition Janata Alliance, whose leader Morarji Desai was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister of India on 24 March. At 81, Desai became the oldest man to be elected Prime Minister of India. Background The sixth general elections, which were conducted for 542 seats in single-member constituencies, represented 27 Indian states and union territories. These 542 constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 1 and 10 March 1971 to elect members of the 5th Lok Sabha, fifth Lok Sabha. They were the fifth general elections since independence in 1947. The 27 Indian states and union territories were represented by 518 constituencies, each with a single seat. Under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, the Indian National Congress (R) led a campaign which focused on Garibi Hatao, reducing poverty and won a landslide victory, overcoming a split in the party and regaining many of the seats lost in the previous election. Background Congress party split During Indira Gandhi's previous term, there had been internal divisions in the Indian National Congress caused by various initiatives of her administration like nationalisation of Banking in India, banks, Coal in India, coal and steel, abolition of the Privy purse in India, privy purse and increasing India–Soviet Union relations, closeness with the Soviet Union, steps that were considered to be too Lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yashwantrao Chavan
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (Marathi pronunciation: əʃʋənt̪ɾaːʋ t͡səʋʱaːɳ 12 March 1913 – 25 November 1984) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician who served as 8th Minister of Finance from 1970 to 1971 and 1971 to 1974. 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. He was a strong Congress leader, co-operative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as ''Leader of Common People''. He advocated social democracy in his speeches and articles and was instrumental in establishing co-operatives in Maharashtra for the betterment of the farmers. Early life Yashwantrao Chavan was born in a Kunbi-Maratha family on 12 March 1913 in the village of Devrashtre in Satara District (now in Sangli District) of Maharas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 17 and 21 February 1967 to elect 520 of the 523 members of the fourth Lok Sabha, an increase of 15 from the previous session of Lok Sabha. Elections to State Assemblies were also held simultaneously, the last general election to do so. The incumbent Indian National Congress government retained power, albeit with a significantly reduced majority. Indira Gandhi was resworn in as the Prime Minister on 13 March. Background By 1967 economic growth in India had slowed – the 1961–1966 Five-Year Plan gave a target of 6% annual growth, but the actual growth rate was 2%. Under Lal Bahadur Shastri, the government's popularity was boosted after India prevailed in the 1965 War with Pakistan, but the war, along with the previous 1962 War with China, put a strain on the economy. Internal divisions were emerging in the Indian National Congress while its two popular leaders Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri had both died. Indira Gand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 19 and 25 February 1962 to elect members of the 3rd Lok Sabha, third Lok Sabha. Unlike the previous two elections, each constituency elected a single member. Jawaharlal Nehru won another landslide victory in his third and final election campaign. The Indian National Congress received 44.7% of the vote and won 361 of the 494 elected seats. This was only slightly lower than in the previous two elections and they still held over 70% of the seats in the Lok Sabha. Results State wise Andhra Pradesh Assam Bihar Gujrat * Gujrat was formed a new state in 1961 after separation from Bombay state. Madras By-elections In 1963 a by-election was held for the Bilaspur Lok Sabha constituency, Bilaspur Lok Sabha seat, which was at the time in Madhya Pradesh. The by-election was won by the Indian National Congress candidate Chandrabhan Singh (Madhya Pradesh politician), Chandrabhan Singh, with votes, against M. L. Shukla of Jana Sangh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Patil
Nana Patil (Nana Ramchandra Pisal Patil) (3 August 1900 - 6 December 1976) popularly known as ''Krantisinh'' ( lit. 'revolutionary lion'), was an Indian independence activist, freedom fighter and Member of Parliament for the Communist Party of India representing Beed district of Marathwada region. He was a source of inspiration for the people. Earlier, he had been a founder of the revolutionary Prati-Sarkar formed in Yedemachindra Sangli district of west Maharashtra. Krantisinh Nana Patil established a parallel government in Satara district. He died on 6 December 1976. British Raj period Nana Patil was born on 3 August 1900 at Yedemachindra, Maharashtra. His full name was Nana Ramchandra Pisal and he was a founding member of the Hindustan Republican Association who went underground between 1929 and 1932. Patil was imprisoned eight or nine times during the struggle with the British Raj from 1932 to 1942. He went underground for a second time for 44 months during the Quit I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Indian General Election
General elections were held in India between 24 February and 14 March 1957, the second elections to the Lok Sabha after independence. Elections to several state legislatures were held simultaneously. Under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian National Congress easily won a second term in power, taking 371 of the 494 seats. They gained an extra seven seats (the size of the Lok Sabha had been increased by five) and their vote share increased from 45% to 48%. The INC received nearly five times more votes than the Communist Party, the second largest party. In addition, 19% of the vote and 42 seats went to independent candidates, the highest of any Indian general election. Electoral system There were 494 seats elected using first past the post voting. Out of the 403 constituencies, 91 elected two members, while the remaining 312 elected a single member. The multi-seat constituencies were abolished before the next election. The elections were overseen by Sukumar Sen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Indian General Election
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shivendra Raje Bhosale
Shivendrasinh Abhaysinhraje Bhosale is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a descendant of Shivaji I, founder of the Maratha Empire. He is heir to the Satara royal family. He was elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Satara constituency from 2004 to 2019 as a member of the Nationalist Congress Party. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. Ssc passed from Annasaheb Kalyani Vidyalaya Satara. Personal life He is son of Abhaysinh Raje Bhosale who was also MLA in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Satara constituency. Udayanraje Bhosale Udayanraje Bhosale (born 24 February 1966) is an Indian politician serving as a member of the Loksabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, from Maharashtra since 2024 from Satara. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bhosal ... is his cousin. Positions held * 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (1st term) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shambhuraj Desai
Shambhuraj Shivajirao Desai (born 17 November 1966) 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 four terms in 2004, 2014 , 2019 and 2024. Positions held * 1986-96: Chairman of Loknete Balasaheb Desai Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. * 1992-2002: Member of Zilla Parishad Satara * 1997-99: Chairman of Maharashtra Cooperation Council (Minister of State status) * 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2014: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2019: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2019: Appointed minister of state for Home (Rural), Finance and Planning, State Excise, Marketing, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship * 2020: Appointed guardian minister of Washim district Washim district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, �aːʃim is a List of distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
