Former CM, Devendra Fadnavis took oath along with Shinde as the new deputy CM of the state. Here is all you need to know about what is next in the state as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis and the Sena rebels led by Eknath Shinde are set to stake their claim to form. The Government of Maharashtra is the state governing authority for the state of Maharashtra, India. 2022 BBC. [48] The resignation of Thackeray saw the cancellation of the floor test.Shinde subsequently formed a new coalition with the BJP. The BJP and Shivsena together gained the majority of seats in the assembly but could not form government due to squabbles between the two parties. Representatives to the upper chamber, the Rajya Sabha, are elected indirectly by the Vidhan Sabha members. Decoding the future of the MVA alliance", "Maharashtra: The political crisis brewing in India's richest state", "Uddhav Thackeray resigns as Maharashtra chief minister hours ahead of trust vote", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Maharashtra&oldid=1098457500, This page was last edited on 15 July 2022, at 23:07. There are 25 and 29 seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and others, respectively. In Haryana, although the BJP is still the single-largest party, it will need support to form a government. On par with the Jan Aashirwad Yatra, Aaditya Thackeray interacted with youth community across the state under the Aditya Samwad, there he addressed questions related common problems faced by today's generation and provided solutions for them. Read about our approach to external linking. [47] Since the majority of Shivsena legislative party sided with Shinde, attempts by Thackeray to disqualify the dissenting members using the anti-defection law were unsuccessful. As many as 3,237 candidates, including 235 women, are contesting in 288 seats. The one-party system came to an end after the 1989 elections. After a 61.4% turnout in the election, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (SHS) won a majority. As no political party was able to prove the majority in the assembly, the President's rule was imposed in the state following recommendation by the Governor on 12 November 2019.[21][22]. In April 2019, voting for the 48 Lok Sabha seats from Maharashtra was held in four phases. Video, 00:01:46, Five reasons why Modi won India's election, Jeremy Bowen on reporting from Ukraine's frontline. Parties such as NCP, BJP, and the Congress field candidates from other Hindu SC groups like Mang and Chambhar for the reserved seats, to thwart the candidates of the RPI.[37]. Ahlawat, S., 2013. List of Political Parties participated in 2019 Maharashtra Assembly Elections. [5] Local self governance institutions in rural areas include 34 zilla parishads (district councils), 355 Taluka Panchayat samitis (district Sub-division councils) and 27,993 Gram panchayats (village councils). The Pol Khol Yatra was intended to expose the ruling Maha Yuti Government's failures and claims. The first time BJP MLA Rahul Narwekar will be the speaker. Aditya Samwad was promoted and supported by Indian Political Strategist Prashant Kishor and his company I-PAC. This government collapsed three days later with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar resigning their respective positions. 0n 30 June 2022 Eknath Shinde was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on 30 June 2022, on resignation of his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray. Formation. In recent years the party has been able to penetrate the Maratha community by fielding Maratha candidates in elections. In 2006, a split within Shiv Sena emerged when Bal Thackeray anointed his son Uddhav Thackeray as his successor over his nephew Raj Thackeray. [16][17] After his second parting from the Congress party in 1999, Sharad Pawar formed the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) but joined a Congress-led coalition to form the state government after the 1999 Assembly elections. Raj Thackeray then left the party and formed a new party called Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). It has over 112million inhabitants and its capital, Mumbai, has a population of approximately 18million. Thackeray's governing coalition included Shiv Sena, NCP, INC, and a number of independent members of legislative assembly . The victory is considered important for the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) comprising three ruling parties - Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress - ahead of the local. But it's not yet clear whether the JJP will support the Congress or the BJP. [8], In addition, 33% of the sarpanch (panchayat chief) positions were also reserved for women. Most of the Mahars are followers of Buddhism and fall under the scheduled caste (SC) group. Regional parties got importance and the coalition government was formed at the centre and in the states. [44][45][46] Shiv Sena leaders accused the BJP for causing the revolt within Shiv Sena and attempting to topple the MVA coalition government. However, since 1990s there has been shift in leadership with many middle level leaders creating personal fiefdom for themselves and their families with the use of strong-arm tactics. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): 2016 saw the BJP settling in the role of the ruling party. It is a democratically elected government with 288 MLAs elected to the Vidhan Sabha for a five-year term. The results are being seen as a temporary setback for PM Narendra Modi. Despite their differences, the BJP and Shiv Sena once again contested the elections together under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) banner. There are national and regional parties in the state, serving different demographics, such as those based on religion, caste, urban and rural residents. The two alliances remained intact for the legislative assembly elections in October 2019. [39] Similarly, the Congress and NCP had their own seat-sharing arrangement. Maharashtra became a bastion of Congress party stalwarts such as Yashwantrao Chavan, Vasantdada Patil, Vasantrao Naik, and Shankarrao Chavan . From 1999 until 2014, the NCP and INC formed one coalition while Shiv Sena and the BJP formed another for three successive elections, which the INC-NCP alliance won. 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Of the 19 Chief Ministers so far, as many as 10 (55%) have been Maratha. [9] . Power is devolved to large city councils, district councils (Zila Parishad), sub-district (Taluka) councils, and the village parish councils (Gram panchayat). News quiz: What was Erling Haaland blamed for this week? During his career, he has split Congress twice, with significant consequences for state politics. Maharashtra elects members to both chambers of the Indian Parliament. The BJP and Shiv Sena together gained the majority of seats in the assembly but could not form government due to squabbles between the two parties. The party and its ally, Shiv Sena, have held onto power in the western state of Maharashtra, but lost 15 of their seats. Representatives to India's lower chamber, the Lok Sabha, are elected by adult universal suffrage, and a first-past-the-post system, to represent their respective constituencies. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. [15] Maharashtra became a bastion of Congress party stalwarts such as Yashwantrao Chavan, Vasantdada Patil, Vasantrao Naik, and Shankarrao Chavan. Maharashtra elects 48 members out of 543 total elected members of the Lok Sabha and 19 out of 233 elected members of the Rajya Sabha. On Thursday, local elections were also held in Indian-administered Kashmir. Subsequently Shivsena withdrew from Maha-Yuti Alliance. It largely relied on Mr Modi's policy of muscular nationalism and local issues were less talked about in its campaigns. Ultimately, the combination of largest legislative party BJP and a faction of the NCP agreed to form a grand coalition with Devendra Fadnavis returning as Chief Minister. Pm Modi led the BJP's campaign in Maharashtra and Haryana, Five reasons why Modi won India's election. [38] The results were significant in that the BJP received the highest number of seats, despite being historically smaller than Shiv Sena in the state. Hansen has termed this as the "dada-ization" of the party. Click to reveal In a setback, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party has decided not to form the government in the western state of Maharashtra - the country's richest - leaving opposition groups . Since a council of ministers had not been formed after no party could manage to form the government, President's rule was imposed in the state. Few days before, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had visited Matoshree (Uddhav Thackeray's Home) and met Uddhav Thackeray for the same. The politics of the state are dominated by the numerically strong MarathaKunbi community. [2] The Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad) is the upper chamber and is a permanent body of 78 members. The campaign by the Nationalist Congress Party was seen as a try-hard campaign against the mighty Sena-BJP Alliance, which proved correct making the BJP-Sena losing vast constituencies against the Congress-NCP. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. The BJP launched the Maha- Janadesh Yatra headed by then incumbent CM and BJP Leader Devendra Fadnavis, State President Chandrakant Patil and Union Minister Rajnath Singh. Thus, it had scored a. The counting for gram panchayat elections in Maharashtra began on Monday, with the results expected in the evening. In case an unelected person becomes the Chief Minister, they must be elected to either House within the following six months. [1] Government in the state is organized on the parliamentary system. Impact of the 73rd Amendment of the Indian Constitution on Women Empowerment: An Analytical Study. Ajit Pawar of NCP was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister. Mumbai: A day after the Centre's announcement on the Tata-Airbus project to manufacture defence transport planes in Gujarat, the ruling and opposition parties on Friday were engaged in a verbal . [18] Shiv Sena was the larger party in the coalition. Pre-election alliance of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was formed between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (SHS). The Yatra only little but helped the party in securing fate in Maharashtra. Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, the Samajwadi Party, various factions of the dalit-dominated Republican Party of India, the Bahujan Samaj Party, and the Socialist party. This offshoot of the Congress party is nevertheless dominated by the Maratha community. [11], After declaration of election result on 24 October 2019, Shiv Sena declined to support BJP for the government formation demanding rotational Chief Ministers of both parties for 2.5 years each, alleging that it was promised by BJP during the elections. There are 25 seats reserved for the SC. AA MUMBAI: The ruling Shiv Sena, NCP and the Congress in Maharashtra on Friday hit out at the opposition BJP for stooping to a "new low" and making the state a "political stage" by organising a protest against the Uddhav Thackeray-led government amid the coronavirus crisis. In the election, the largest number of seats went to the BJP, with 122 seats. The state has a long tradition of highly powerful planning bodies at district and local levels. The 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election was held on 21 October 2019 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. India's ruling party wins control of its richest state By wooing defectors, the Bharatiya Janata Party has taken Maharashtra Jul 7th 2022 | MUMBAI A heavy downpour washed over Thane, a. The government of Maharashtra is headed by the Chief Minister, who is chosen by the party or alliance with a majority of members in the Legislative Assembly. The breakaway party of Raj Thakeray, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, did not contest any seats, and instead urged their supporters to vote for the NCPCongress alliance, Thakre campaigning for candidates belonging to these parties. The Chiplun constituency has the least candidates (3 candidates), whereas Nanded South constituency had the maximum candidates (38 candidates).[9]. Nagpur is Maharashtra's second, or winter, capital. In a significant development indicating a patch-up with federally ruling party BJP, the ruling party of India's Maharashtra Shiv Sena on Monday said "our (Shiv Sena, BJP) political ways may be different, but the friendship will remain intact". An alphabetical list of all the departments of Maharashtra Government with terms: [42][43] The Uddhav Thackeray led government collapsed in June 2022 due to rebellion inside the Shivsena party. But the NCP national leadership had rebuffed this move and announced that it will not support BJP. Since the time of B. R. Ambedkar, the Mahar community has supported various factions of the Republican Party of India (RPI). However both of them resigned on 26 November 2019 before the floor test and on 28 November 2019, Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress formed the government under a new alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), with Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister. International Journal of Enhanced Research in Educational Development, 1(3), p.4. By PTI MUMBAI: Leaders of the ruling coalition in Maharashtra lashed out at actor Kangana Ranaut on Friday for comparing Mumbai to Pak-occupied-Kashmir, with home minister Anil Deshmukh saying. Eknath Shinde, the rebel Shive Sena leader who toppled the Uddhav Thackeray government, took charge as the new chief minister of Maharashtra on 30th June, 2022. Cloudflare Ray ID: 764bc98ab804b704 The INC flagged off the Pol Khol Yatra headed by senior state party leaders like Ashok Chavan, State President Balasaheb Thorat and Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath. Later, however, SHS left NDA and formed Three-Party Alliance Government Maha Vikas Aghadi seeing inability to share power with each other. Governing Party / Governing Alliance Opposition Party / Opposition Alliance Other Parties 1 Andhra Pradesh: YSRCP: TDP: BJP: 2 Bihar: JD(U)+RJD+HAMS+VIP BJP+INC+CPI 3 Karnataka: BJP: INC: JD(S) 4 Maharashtra: BJP + RPI SS + INC + NCP (MVA) MNS: 5 Telangana: TRS: AIMIM: BJP+INC: 6 Uttar . [8], A total of 5543 nominations were received by Election Commission throughout the state of which about 3239 candidatures were left after others were rejected or had their nominations withdrawn. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. [10], The administration in each district is headed by a District Collector, who belongs to the Indian Administrative Service and is assisted by a number of officers belonging to Maharashtra state services. [35], The Shiv SenaBJP coalition came to power at the state level in 1995, which was a blow to the Congress party. [29] Since the 1980s, politicians from this group has also been active in setting up private educational institutions.[30][31][32]. The NCP also managed to revive the itself by successfully gaining their stronghold Western Maharashtra back from the Sena-BJP Alliance, the lone-NCP was seen as the main and unexpected competitor against the Sena-BJP. Other departments not allocated to any Minister. The opposition finalised common nominee of 2 seats of Mankhatao and Kothrud constituency. They dominated the cooperative institutions; and with the resultant economic power, controlled politics from the village level to the state Assembly and the Lok Sabha. [7] Maharashtra Navnirman Sena will be contesting from 103 seats. [3] However, the constitutional and formal head of the state is the Governor, who is appointed for a five-year term by the President of India on the advice of the Union government.[4]. The BJP, with 105 seats, was far short of the 145 seats required to form majority and declined to form a minority government. All major parties in the state (BJP, Shivsena, INC, and NCP) contested the elections on their own, leading to a complex and much-contested election. Shiv Sena was formed in the 1960s by Balashaheb Thackerey, a cartoonist and journalist, to advocate and agitate for the interests of Marathi people in Mumbai. The Chief Minister, along with the council of ministers, drives the legislative agenda and exercises most of the executive powers. [23], After the state of Maharashtra was formed on 1 May 1960, the INC was long without a major challenger. The BJPShivsena alliance came to an end in early November 2019, with Shivsena subsequently forming a new alliance with its longtime rivals, the NCP and Congress, to form the new state government on 28 November 2019. Shiv Sena also held rallies across Maharashtra where it's a key regional ally. [12] Sectoral development in the districts is looked after by the district head of each development department, such as Public Works, Health, Education, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.[13][14]. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [4] Peoples Republican Party (3 seats) and Bahujan Republican Socialist Party (2 seats) will be fielding their candidates on the symbols of INC and NCP. The new alliance, named Maha Vikas Aghadi, consists of Congress, Shiv Sena and NCP forming the Government, The Election Commission announced the election dates for the Assembly elections in Maharashtra.[3]. [19][20][21], For the 2014 assembly polling, the alliances between the NCP and Congress and between the BJP and Shiv Sena broke down over seat allocations. Third, in Maharashtra the incumbent BJP has gained the biggest number of seats - 105 of 288 elected seats (followed by SHS with 56, the NCP with 54 and Congress with 44). Performance & security by Cloudflare. 2022 Shivsena rebellion and change of government. In June 2022, this government collapsed when the majority of the Shiv Sena legislative party, under Eknath Shinde, broke away to form a new coalition with the BJP. The Congress party won only one seat in the state whereas the NCP won five seats from its stronghold of western Maharashtra.[41]. The party originally derived its support from the urban upper castes, such as Brahmins and non-Maharashtrians. On 16 September 2019, the Indian National Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party sealed their deal for seat sharing arrangements for the elections, both the parties contested on 125 Seats and kept 38 seats for Independents/Smaller Parties, This comes after the INC-NCP lost many heavyweight leaders joining BJP-Sena. At the same time, Shiv Sena started talks with the NCP and Congress to form government. Video, 00:01:46Five reasons why Modi won India's election. The Uddhav Thackeray led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition began to unravel in late June 2022 when Eknath Shinde, a senior Shiv Sena leader, along with several other MLAs of the party moved to Surat in BJP governed Gujarat throwing the coalition into a crisis. In order to expand the party's image and to improve its vote share within the state as well as in the Alliance, the Shiv Sena started Jan Aashirwad Yatra headed by party's youth icon and Yuva Sena Chief Aaditya Thackeray. 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What the year 2017 means for prominent political parties in Maharashtra? The Sena-BJP though managed to form the government for the second term, but lost core-ministers and constituencies to the NCP. [11] The Superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service and assisted by the officers of the Maharashtra Police Service, maintains law and order in addition to other related issues in each district. [6] All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen will be contesting from 44 seats, mostly from Muslim predominant constituencies. India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has lost its majority in a key state election. Prithviraj Chavan of the Congress party was the last Chief Minister of Maharashtra under the Congress-NCP alliance that ruled until 2014. On 23 November 2019, BJP formed a government with support from NCP, with Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister. 178.62.226.96 The BJP put together an alliance of upper castes, the Other Backward Class (OBC), and to some extent the Dalit to fight the Maratha-led Congress and NCP. It has won 40 seats in the northern state of Haryana, which is six short of the simple majority needed to retain power. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. Also, get the list of current Chief Ministers in all the states in India. Following differences over the government formation, the alliance was dissolved, precipitating a . However, Shiv Sena decided to end their alliance with BJP and formed an alliance with the opposition. 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