Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
Leader	Prithviraj Chavan
President	Nana Patole
Chairperson	Balasaheb Thorat (Leader of Congress Legislature Party Maharashtra Legislature)
Secretary	Vijay Namdevrao Wadettiwar (Leader of the Opposition Maharashtra Legislative Assembly)
Headquarters	Tilak Bhawan, Kaka Saheb Gadgil Marg, Dadar, Mumbai-400025, Maharashtra Gandhi Bhawan, Colaba Causeway, Mumbai-400 005, Maharashtra
Student wing	Maharashtra NSUI
Youth wing	Maharashtra Youth Congress
Women's wing	Maharashtra Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology	Populism Social liberalism Democratic socialism Social democracy Secularism
Alliance	Maha Vikas Aghadi
Seats in Lok Sabha	1 / 48
Seats in Rajya Sabha	3 / 19
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly	45 / 288
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council	10 / 78
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Website
www.mahacongress.com
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The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (or Maharashtra PCC) is the state unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of Maharashtra. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections in Maharashtra. The head office of the organization is situated in Dadar, Mumbai and administrative office in Colaba Causeway, Mumbai

History

The state of Maharashtra was formed on 1 May 1960, and since then its politics have been evolving. The INC was long without a major challenger, and enjoyed overwhelming support from the state's sugar co-operatives and thousands of other cooperative organizations involved in the rural agricultural economy of the state such as marketing of dairy and vegetable produce, credit unions etc. Since 1930s when Keshrao Jedhe joined the Congress party, the politics of the Bombay state and its successor Maharashtra state has been dominated by the mainly rural Maratha-Kunbi caste.^[1] This group dominates the cooperative institutions and with the resultant economic power, control politics from the village level up to the Assembly and Lok Sabha seats. Since 1980s, this group has also been active in setting up private educational institutions.^[2] Major past political figures of Congress party from Maharashtra such as Keshavrao Jedhe, Yashwantrao Chavan, Vinayakrao Patil, Vasantdada Patil, Shankarrao Chavan Keshavrao Sonawane and Vilasrao Deshmukh have been from this group. Sharad Pawar, who had been a towering figure in Maharashtrian and national politics belongs to this group. The state's political status quo was upset when Sharad Pawar defected from the INC, which he perceived as the vehicle of the Gandhi dynasty, to form the Nationalist Congress Party. This followed disputes between Pawar and the INC president Sonia Gandhi. This offshoot of the Congress party split the Maratha community support. In the last thirty years, however, Shiv Sena and the BJP began gaining a foothold in the state of Maharashtra, especially in the urban areas such as Mumbai. Shiv Sena and the BJP came into the power in 1995, which was a big blow to the INC. After one term, however, the Congress-NCP alliance regained power and held it until 2014. The INC contested the 2014 state assembly election without getting in a formal alliance with the NCP and lost power to the BJP.

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections

Year	Party leader	Change in Seats	Seat won	Outcome
Bombay Presidency
1937	B.G. Kher	86	86 / 175 (49%)	Government
1946		39	125 / 175 (71%)	Government
Bombay State
1952	Morarji Desai	94	269 / 315 (85%)	Government
1957	Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan	35	234 / 396 (59%)	Government
Maharashtra State
1962	Marotrao Kannamwar	215	215 / 264 (81%)	Government
1967	Vasantrao Naik	12	203 / 270 (75%)	Government
1972		19	222 / 270 (82%)	Government
1978	Vasantdada Patil	153	69 / 288 (24%)	Opposition
1980	A. R. Antulay	117	186 / 288 (65%)	Government
1985	Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar	25	161 / 288 (56%)	Government
1990	Sharad Pawar	20	141 / 288 (49%)	Government
1995		61	80 / 288 (28%)	Opposition
1999	Vilasrao Deshmukh	5	75 / 288 (26%)	Government
2004		6	69 / 288 (24%)	Government
2009	Ashok Chavan	13	82 / 288 (28%)	Government
2014	Prithviraj Chavan	40	42 / 288 (15%)	Opposition
2019	Balasaheb Thorat	2	44 / 288 (15%)	Opposition

Seats won in Maharashtra Lok Sabha Elections

Lok Sabha Election	Seats Won	Seat Change	Composition
1951 Lok Sabha Election	41	41	41 / 45 (91%)
1957 Lok Sabha Election	20	21	20 / 45 (44%)
1962 Lok Sabha Election	39	19	39 / 45 (87%)
1967 Lok Sabha Election	36	3	36 / 45 (80%)
1971 Lok Sabha Election	39	3	39 / 45 (87%)
1977 Lok Sabha Election	13	26	13 / 48 (27%)
1980 Lok Sabha Election	42	4	42 / 48 (88%)
1984 Lok Sabha Election	43	1	43 / 48 (90%)
1989 Lok Sabha Election	12	3	12 / 48 (25%)
1991 Lok Sabha Election	19	7	19 / 48 (40%)
1996 Lok Sabha Election	13	6	13 / 48 (27%)
1998 Lok Sabha Election	29	16	29 / 48 (60%)
1999 Lok Sabha Election	10	19	10 / 48 (21%)
2004 Indian general election in Maharashtra	13	3	13 / 48 (27%)
2009 Indian general election in Maharashtra	17	4	17 / 48 (35%)
2014 Indian general election in Maharashtra	2	15	2 / 48 (4%)
2019 Indian general election in Maharashtra	1	1	1 / 48 (2%)

Status in Municipal Corporations

List of Presidents

S.no	President	Portrait	Term
1.	Abasaheb Khedkar		1960	1963
2.	Vinayakrao Patil		1963	1967
3.	Vasantdada Patil		1967	1972
4.	P. K. Sawant		1972	1978
5.	Narendra Tidke		1978	1978
6.	Nashikrao Tirpude		1978	1979
7.	Ramrao Adik		1979	1980
8.	Premala Chavan		1980	1981
9.	Gulabrao Patil		1981	1982
10.	S M I Asir		1983	1983
11.	N. M. Kamble		1983	1985
12.	Prabha Rau		1985	1988
13.	Pratibha Patil		1988	1989
(11).	N. M. Kamble		1989	1990
14.	Sushilkumar Shinde		1990	1991
15.	Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar		1991	1992
16.	Shivajirao Deshmukh		1992	1993
(14).	Sushilkumar Shinde		1993	1997
17.	Ranjeet Deshmukh		1997	1998
18.	Prataprao Baburao Bhosale		1998	2000
19.	Govindrao Adik		2000	2003
(17).	Ranjeet Deshmukh		2003	2004
(12).	Prabha Rau		2004	2008
20.	Patangrao Kadam		2008	2008
21.	Manikrao Thakare		2008	2015
22.	Ashok Chavan		2015	2019
23.	Balasaheb Thorat		2019	2021
24.	Nana Patole		2021	Incumbent

Officeholders

Source:^[3]

President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
Indian National Congress
Incumbent Nana Falgunrao Patole since 5 February 2021
Indian National Congress
Style	Mr. President
Type	Political Party Office
Residence	Mumbai
Nominator	Committee consisting of members of the Indian National Congress from the National
Appointer	National President
Term length	no term limit
Constituting instrument	Constitution of the Indian National Congress[4]
Precursor	Balasaheb Thorat
Formation	1 May 1960
First holder	Abasaheb Khedkar (1960-1963)
Website	www.inc.in

Parliamentary Board

1. Shri. Nana Patole

2. Shri. Balasaheb Thorat

5. Shri. Prithviraj Chavan

6. Shri. Sushilkumar Shinde

7. Shri. Mukul Wasnik

8. Smt. Rajani Patil

9. Shri. Dr. Nitin Raut

10. Shri. Avinash Pande

11. Shri. Muzzafar Hussain

12. Shri. Vilas Muttemwar

13. Shri. Manikrao Thakare

14. Shri.Bhai Jagtap

15. Shri. K. C. Padavi

16. Shri. Vijay Wadettiwar

17. Smt. Varsha Gaikwad

18. Shri. Sunil C. Kedar

Structure and Composition

Various Committees

Screening Committee, Election Coordination Committee, Election Committee, Election Management Committee, Campaign Committee, Media Coordination Committee, Publicity Committee,  Manifesto Committee, Finance Committee are constituted and Observers are appointed during Assembly and Parliament elections. Subject Committees may be constituted on various issues and matters.

Delegates

The MPCC has 553 PCC delegates & 100 AICC delegates, while the MRCC has 236 PCC delegates & 43 AICC delegates.^[5]

Frontal organisations

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress OBC

• Shri.Datta Avhad,Working President.

• Shri.Bhanudas Mali, President.

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Sevadal

• Shri. Vilas Autade, Chief Organizer.

Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress

• shri. Kunal Nitin Raut

President, Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress

• Adv. Nikhil Kamble,

Chairman, Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress RTI-Department.

Maharashtra Pradesh Mahila Congress

• MS.SANDHYA SAWALAKHE, President.

Maharashtra Pradesh Indian National Trade Union Congress

• Shri. Prakash Hirachand Mutha, President

Maharashtra Pradesh National Students Union of India

• Shri. Amir Shaikh,

President. NSUI Maharashtra

• Er. Sandeep Maurya,

National Convenor NSUI RTI & In-charge Mumbai University

List of chief ministers of Maharashtra from the Congress Party

Performance in state elections

List of Congress MLAs

See also

• All India Congress Committee
• Congress Working Committee
• Indian National Congress
• Politics of Maharashtra
• Pradesh Congress Committee

Citations

General sources

• News Network of India

External links

• Official website

This page was last edited on 23 March 2024, at 03:09