The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (or Maharashtra PCC) is the state unit of the

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for the state of

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

. 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

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and administrative office in

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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,

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s etc. Since 1930s when Keshrao Jedhe joined the Congress party, the politics of the

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and its successor Maharashtra state has been dominated by the mainly rural

Maratha The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a M ...

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caste. This group dominates the cooperative institutions and with the resultant economic power, control politics from the village level up to the Assembly and

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seats. Since 1980s, this group has also been active in setting up private educational institutions. Major past political figures of Congress party from Maharashtra such as

Keshavrao Jedhe Keshavrao Marutrao Jedhe (Deshmukh) (25 April 1896 – 12 November 1959) was an Indian independence activist and politician from Pune. He served as a leading figure in the Indian National Congress, and in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement durin ...

Yashwantrao Chavan Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (Marathi pronunciation: əʃʋənt̪ɾaːʋ t͡səʋʱaːɳ 12 March 1913 – 25 November 1984) was an Indian politician. He served as the last Chief Minister of Bombay State and the first of Maharashtra after l ...

, Vinayakrao Patil,

Vasantdada Patil Vasantrao Banduji "Vasantdada" Patil (13 November 1917 – 1 March 1989) was an Indian politician from Sangli, Maharashtra. He was known as the first modern Maratha strongman and first mass leader in Maharashtrian politics. Patil served as C ...

Shankarrao Chavan Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan (14 July 1920 – 26 February 2004) was an Indian politician who served twice as Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 26 June 1988. He was Finance Minister of India from 1988 ...

Keshavrao Sonawane Keshavrao Sonawane (1925–2006) was an Indian politician, who served four terms in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, and was a Co-operative minister in Yashwantrao Chavan's cabinet and later Vasantrao Naik's cabinet during 1962–1967. He ...

and

Vilasrao Deshmukh Vilasrao Dagadojirao Deshmukh (26 May 1945 – 14 August 2012) was an Indian politician who served as the 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, first term from 18 October 1999 to 16 January 2003 and second term, from 1 November 2004 to 5 D ...

have been from this group.

Sharad Pawar Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: �əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minist ...

, 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

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. This followed disputes between Pawar and the

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president

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. 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

Seats won in Maharashtra Lok Sabha Elections

Status in Municipal Corporations

List of Presidents

Officeholders

Source:

Parliamentary Board

1. Shri.

Nana Patole Nana Falgunrao Patole (born 5 June 1963) is an Indian politician who is the current President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee from 5 February 2021. He was the Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. A former Member of the ...

2. Shri.

Balasaheb Thorat Vijay Bhausaheb Thorat (Marathi pronunciation: aːɭaːsaːɦeb t̪ʰoɾaːt̪ born 7 February 1953) is an Indian politician who was minister for revenue in Maharashtra state. He is currently appoint Deputy Leaders of the Opposition Maharashtr ...

3. Shri. Ashok Shankarrao Chavan 4. Shri.

Baba Siddique Baba Ziauddin Siddique is an Indian politician who was a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the state of Maharashtra in India for the Vandre West Vidhan Sabha Constituency. He was the MLA for three consecutive terms in 1999, 2004 and 2009 ...

5. Shri.

Prithviraj Chavan Prithviraj Chavan () (born 17 March 1946) is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, a state in Western India. Chavan is a graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and University of Cali ...

6. Shri.

Sushilkumar Shinde Sushilkumar Sambhaji Shinde (born 4 September 1941) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Power in the Manmohan Singh government, and the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha until ...

7. Shri.

Mukul Wasnik Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik (born 27 September 1959) is an Indian Politician. He was the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment in Government of India. He represented the Ramtek constituency of Maharashtra from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of ...

8. Smt. Rajani Patil 9. Shri. Dr. Nitin Raut 10. Shri. Avinash Pande 11. Shri. Muzzafar Hussain 12. Shri.

Vilas Muttemwar Vilas Bhaurao Muttemwar (born 22 March 1949) is a former Minister of India. He represented the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency of Maharashtra in 14th Lok Sabha and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He is former Minister of State (Ind ...

13. Shri.

Manikrao Thakare Manikrao Govindrao Thakare (born 22 August 1954) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is a senior leader of Indian National Congress & He is the most trustworthy OBC leader in Maharashtra. He was previously a member of the M ...

14. Shri.

Bhai Jagtap Bhai Jagtap (birth name Ashok Arjunrao Jagtap) is an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress from Mumbai Maharashtra. He is a two term Maharashtra Legislative Council ( MLC) and a one term Maharashtra Legislative Assembly ( ...

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.

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 Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress (MPYC) is Maharashtra State Unit of Indian Youth Congress The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Con ...

* shri. Kunal Nitin Raut President,

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* Adv. Nikhil Kamble, Chairman,

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.

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, National Convenor

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RTI & In-charge

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List of chief ministers of Maharashtra from the Congress Party

Performance in state elections

List of Congress MLAs

Citations

General sources

News Network of India

External links

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