Diwakar Raote is a leader of

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

from

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. On 5 December 2014 Raote took charge as the Cabinet Minister of Transport in Maharashtra Government. He is also the guardian minister of

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and

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Districts. Earlier he was entrusted with the responsibility of establishing the organization in

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after the party's decision in 1985 to expand to whole Maharashtra. He became Mayor of Mumbai in 1991. In Narayan Rane ministry, he was a cabinet minister of Revenue,

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. He belongs to the

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, a scribal caste community of Hindu society in Maharashtra mostly found in Mumbai and the North Konkan region.

Positions held

* 1991-1992: Mayor of Mumbai * Leader, Shiv Sena * 1995-1999: Cabinet Minister Maharashtra. * 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council * 2008: Shiv Sena Party group Leader in the Maharashtra Legislative Council * 2010: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council * 2014: Cabinet Minister of Transport in Maharashtra State Government * 2014-2016: Guardian minister of

and

* 2016: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council * 2017: Guardian minister of

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