Political families of Maharashtra

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Although a parliamentary democracy, Indian politics has increasing become dynastic, possibly due to the absence of a party organization, independent civil society associations that mobilize support for the party, and centralized financing of elections.[1] Family members have also led the Congress party for most of the period since 1978 when Indira Gandhi floated the then Congress(I) faction of the party.[2]It also is fairly common also in many political parties in Maharashtra.[3] The dynastic phenomenon is seen from national level down to district level and even village level.The three-tier structure of Panchayati Raj created in the 1960s also helped to create and consolidate this phenomenon in rural areas. Apart from government,political families also control cooperative institutions, mainly cooperative sugar factories and district cooperative banks in the state.[4] The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party also features several senior leaders who are dynasts. However, the phenomenon of dynasticism is at much lower level in the BJP than the Congress party.[5][6] In Maharashtra, the NCP has particularly high level of dynasticism.[6]

Below is a partial list of the political families of Maharashtra state in India.

A[]

The Ambedkar Family

Main article: Ambedkar family

B[]

The Bhosale Family, Satara

▪ Udayanraje Bhosale, Former Minister of State in Maharashtra Government. Member of Parliament of India.

▪ Shivendra Raje Bhosale, Member of Legislative Assembly.

The Bhujbal Family

C[]

The Chavan Family (of Dajisaheb)

  • Dajisaheb Chavan(1916 – 1973) - Union Deputy Minister for Defence and Law.
  • Premalakaki Chavan(1918 – 2003) - Wife of Dajisaheb Chavan. Member of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha

The Chavan Family (of Shankarrao)

D[]

The Dange Family

The Dandavate Family

The Danve Family

  • Raosaheb Danve - Represents Bhartiya Janata Party in 16th Lok Sabha[1] & formerly Maharashtra President of Bhartiya Janata Party.

The Deshmukh Family

  • Vilasrao Deshmukh (1945 – August 2012) - MP in the Rajya Sabha, Indian Minister of Science & Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences, former Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, former Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Panchayati Raj, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra for 2 Terms -
    • Amit Deshmukh, son of Vilasrao Deshmukh - Cabinet Minister & Guardian Minister of Latur
  • Diliprao Deshmukh; Younger Brother Of Vilasrao Deshmukh - Former Minister For Sports Maharashtra Government & Guardian Minister For Latur

The Deora Family

    • Milind Deora Former Minister of Central Government, Son of Murli Deora

The Dutt Family

    • Priya Dutt Ex. Member of Parliament, daughter of Sunil Dutt

F[]

The Fadnavis Family

G[]

The Gadakh Family

  • Yashwantrao Gadakh Patil - is a veteran leader of Nationalist Congress Party from Maharashtra. He served as Member of Parliament for 3 terms, also served as Member of legislative council.[1]
    • Shankarrao Gadakh - current Cabinet Minister of Government of Maharashtra. He was elected as an independent Member of the legislative assembly in 2019 for the second time, and later announced his support to Shivsena.

The family is also very close to Sharad Pawar.

The Gaikwad Family

Member of Parliament

The Gavai Family

The Gholap Family

  • Babanrao Gholap - Cabinet Minister of Social Welfare in Maharashtra Government
    • Yogesh Gholap - Son of Babanrao. Member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Deolali Vidhan Sabha constituency as member of Shiv Sena

H[]

The Hiray Family

K[]

The Khadse Family, Jalgaon

The Khan Family, Parbhani

The Kshirsagar Family, Beed

M[]

The Mohite Family, Solapur

The Mahajan Family

The Munde Family

N[]

The Vasantrao Naik Family

  • Vasantrao Naik, 4th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Former Member of Parliament. The longest served Chief Minister of State.
  • son of , Former Minister of state.
  • Sudhakarrao Naik,Nephew of , Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Former Member of Parliament. Founder member of Nationalist Congress Party
  • Manohar Naik, brother of , Ex Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra, Leader of Nationalist Congress Party
  • Nilay Naik, Nephew of Sudhakarrao Naik, Member of Legislative Council, Former President of Zilha Parishad Yavatmal.
  • ,son of Manohar Naik, MLA.
  • , wife of Manohar Naik, Mayor Municipal Corporation Pusad.
  • , Son of Manohar Naik, former deputy President of Zilha Parishad Yavatmal.

The Naik Family

  • Ganesh Naik, Member of legislative assembly and Ex Minister of State excise and non conventional energy, Maharashtra[7]
    • Sanjeev Naik, Ex. Member of Parliament Lok Sabha, Ex.Mayor of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation
    • Sandeep Naik, Ex.Member of Legislative Assembly
    • , Ex Mayor of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, Nephew of Ganesh Naik

P[]

The Pawar Family, Baramati

  • Sharad Pawar - Former Agriculture Minister of India, Member Of Parliament Rajya Sabha
    • Supriya Sule - Daughter of Sharad Pawar, Member, Lok Sabha Baramati Constituency
    • Ajit Pawar - Nephew of Sharad Pawar; Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra State
      • Rohit Rajendra Pawar - Grandson of Sharad Pawar, Nephew of Supriya Sule and Ajit Pawar Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Karjat Jamkhed Constituency

The Patil family Nilanga

The Vikhe Patil family Nagar

The Patil Family Kolhapur

  • D. Y. Patil - Former Governor of Bihar, India
    • Satej Patil - MLC, State Minister & Guardian Minister of Kolhapur District, Maharashtra

The Patil Family Tasgaon (Sangli)

R. R. Patil - Ex.Deputy Chief Minister and Cabinet minister of Maharashtra State

Suman Patil - Member of Legislative Assembly, Wife of R. R. Patil

The Patil Family Sangali

- Ex. Member of legislative assembly Maharashtra

Jayant Patil - Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra State, Son of Rajarambapu Patil

The Purohit Family

  • Raj K. Purohit - Chief Whip of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (Cabinet Minister)
    • Aakash Raj Purohit - Municipal corporator from Ward 221, BMC.
  • also known as - Student leader in Maharastra and State Joint Secretary of ABVP Konkan

The Paranjape Family

R[]

The Rane Family

S[]




The Solanke Family, Beed ▪ Sundarrao Solanke - Patil, Former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra State(1978-1980), Unopposed MLA in 1972, First President of Beed Zilla Parishad.

The Shinde Family, Solapur

  • Sushilkumar Shinde, Former Central Home Minister of India, Former Ministry of Power, Former Governor of AndhraPradesh, Former Chief Minister of Mahrashtra.
    • Praniti Shinde, Member of Legislative Assembly from Solapur City Central, Mahrashtra, AICC Media Panelist. Daughter of Sushilkumar

The Shirole (Patil) Family, Pune.

  • Anil Shirole, Ex-Member of Parliament of Delhi from Pune.
  • Siddharth Shirole, Present Member of Legislative Assembly Maharashtra from Shivajinagar Assembly Constituency Pune.
  • Bhausaheb Shirole, Second Mayor of Pune in 1957 and Ex-Member of Legislative Council Maharashtra, Pune.
  • Balasaheb Shirole, Mayor of Pune in 1983.
  • Shrikant Shirole, Ex - Corporater and Standing Committee Chairman of Pune Municipal Corporation in Shivajinagar Pune.

The Shinde family

  • Eknath Shinde, Member of Legislative Assembly from Kopri-Pachpakhadi, Maharashtra, Leader of Shiv Sena Party, former Cabinet Minister of PWD in Maharashtra State Government (2014-2019), Appointed as Guardian minister of Thane District (2014-2019)
  • Shrikant Shinde, Member of Parliament 16th Lok Sabha from kalyan constituency, Maharashtra, Son of Eknath Shinde

The Siddique Family, Mumbai

T[]

The Thackeray Family, Mumbai

  • Bal Thackeray (Balasaheb) (1926 – 2012) - founder leader and former chairperson of the Shiv Sena
    • Uddhav Thackeray,Chief Minister Of Maharashtra; leader and chairperson of the Shiv Sena; son of Balasaheb Thackeray
      • Aditya Thackeray, Minister (Environment and climate, Tourism, Protocol), Government of Maharashtra; founder and president of Yuva Sena; son of Uddhav Thackeray
    • Raj Thackeray, nephew of Balasaheb. Founded and heads the breakaway faction called Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
      • Amit Thackeray, Son of Raj Thackeray MNS Leader

Z[]

The Zanak Family

  • Ramrao Zanak - Former Member Of Legislative Assembly.
  • Subhash Zanak - Son of Ramrao. Former Cabinet Minister For Women and Child Welfare, Ashok Chavan's Ministry
  • Amit Subhashrao Zanak - Son of Subhash and grandson of Ramrao. Legislator in Maharashtra assembly

The Zakaria Family

  • Rafiq Zakaria Former Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha & Cabinet Minister in Maharashtra
  • Asif Zakaria - Son of Ahmed, Municipal Corporator, Ward No. 101 & Member - Standing Committee, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai

References[]

  1. ^ Chhibber⇑, Pradeep (March 2013). "Dynastic parties Organization, finance and impact". Party Politics. 19 (2): 277–295. doi:10.1177/1354068811406995. S2CID 144781444.
  2. ^ Basu, Amrita; Chandra (Editor), Kanchan (2016). Democratic Dynasties: State, Party and Family in Contemporary Indian Politics (1 ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-107-12344-1. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2016. {{cite book}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ Simon Denyer (24 June 2014). Rogue Elephant: Harnessing the Power of India's Unruly Democracy. Bloomsbury USA. pp. 115–116. ISBN 978-1-62040-608-3.
  4. ^ Palshikar, S., 2004. Issues in an Issue-less Election: Assembly Polls in Maharashtra. Economic and Political weekly, pp.4399-4403.
  5. ^ "Is the BJP less dynastic than the Congress? Not so, Lok Sabha data shows".
  6. ^ a b Kanchan Chandra (28 April 2016). Democratic Dynasties: State, Party, and Family in Contemporary Indian Politics. Cambridge University Press. p. 131,136. ISBN 978-1-316-59212-0.
  7. ^ Thomas Blom Hansen (5 June 2018). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-0-691-18862-1.
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