Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
President	Nana Patole
Headquarters	Tilak Bhawan, Kaka Saheb Gadgil Marg, Dadar, Mumbai-400025, Maharashtra Gandhi Bhawan, Colaba Causeway, Mumbai-400 005, Maharashtra
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	44 / 288
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council	10 / 78
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Website
	www.mahacongress.com
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (or Maharashtra PCC) is the state unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of 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.

List of Presidents


Year	President
1960-63	Abasaheb Khedkar
1963-67	Vinayakrao Patil
1967-72	Vasantdada Patil
1972-78	P. K. Sawant
1978	Narendra Tidake
1978-79	Nashikrao Tirpude
1979-80	Ramrao Adik
1980-81	Premilatai D. Chavan
1981-82	Gulabrao Patil
1983	S M I Amir
1983-85	N. M. Kamble
1985-88	Prabha Rau
1988-89	Pratibha Patil
1989-90	N. M. Kamble
1990-91	Sushilkumar Shinde
1991-92	Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar
1992-93	Shivajirao Deshmukh
1993-97	Sushilkumar Shinde
1997-98	Ranjeet Deshmukh
1998-00	Prataprao Baburao Bhosale
2000-03	Govindrao Adik
2003-04	Ranjeet Deshmukh
2004-08	Prabha Rau
2008	Patangrao Kadam
2008-15	Manikrao Thakre
2015-19	Ashok Chavan
2019–21	Balasaheb Thorat
2021-Present	Nana Patole

Office Bearers [3]

President

Shri. Nana Patole.

Working Presidents

1. Shri Shivajirao Moghe.

2. Shri Basvaraj Patil.

3. Shri. Mohammad Arif Naseem Khan.

4. Shri. Kunal Rohidas Patil.

5. Shri. Chandrakant Handore.

6. Ku. Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde.

Vice Presidents

1. Shri. Shirish Madukarrao Chaudhary.

2. Shri. Ramesh Anandrao Bagwe.

3. Shri. Hussain Dalwai.

4. Shri. Mohan Joshi.

5. Shri. Ranjit Pratap Kamble.

6. Shri. Kailash Krishnarao Gorantyal.

7. Shri. B. I. Nagarale.

8. Shri. Sharad Aher.

9. Shri. M. M. Shaikh.

10. Shri. Manikrao Jagtap.

Parliamentary Board

1. Shri. Nana Patole.

2. Shri. Balasaheb Thorat.

3. Shri. Sharad Ranpise.

4. Shri. Ashok Shankarrao Chavan.

5. Shri. Sushilkumar Shinde.

6. Shri. Prithviraj Chavan.

7. Shri. Shivraj Patil.

8. Shri. Mukul Wasnik.

9. Smt. Rajani Patil.

10. Shri. Rajiv Satav.

11. Shri. Avinash Pande.

12. Shri. Milind Deora.

13. Shri. Vilas Muttemwar.

14. Shri. Manikrao Thakare.

15. Shri. Bhai Jagtap.

16. Shri. K. C. Padavi.

17. Shri. Vijay Wadettiwar.

18. Dr. Nitin Raut.

19. Smt. Varsha Gaikwad.

20. Shri. Sunil C. Kedar.

21. Shri. Aslam Shaikh.

22. Smt. Yashomati Thakur.

23. Shri. Amit Deshmukh.

24. Shri. Vishwajit Kadam.

25. Shri. Satej Patil.

26. Shri. Vasant Purke.

27. Shri. Suresh Dhanorkar.

28. Shri. Ranjit Kamble.

29. Shri. Suresh Shetty.

30. Shri. Hussain Dalwai.

31. Shri. Anant Gadgil.

32. Shri. Baba Ziauddin Siddhique.

33. Shri. Ashish Ranjit Deshmukh.

34. Dr. Bhalchandra Munagekar.

35. Shri. Muzzafar Hussain.

36. Chairman, Kisan Cell.

37. Shri. Mohan Joshi. (Organization)

Ex-Officio Members.

1. AICC Secretaries in charge of Maharashtra.

2. Working Presidents, MPCC.

3. AICC Secretaries from Maharashtra.

4. Heads of Frontal Organizations.

Treasurer

Suresh Shetty

General Secretaries

TBA

Secretaries

TBA

Spokespersons

Shri Anant Gadgil, MLC
Shri Ulhas Pawar, Ex. MLC
Dr. Shri Ratnakar Mahajan
Shri Harish Rogye
Shri Ashok (Bhai) Jagtap, MLC
Shri Sachin Sawant
Dr. Raju Waghmare
Smt. Neela Limaye
Smt. Hemalata Patil
Dr. Shri Sudhir Dhone
Shri Atul Londhe