Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee

President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
	Indian National Congress
	Incumbent; Nana Falgunrao Patole; since 5 February 2021
	Indian National Congress
Style	Mr. President
Type	Political Party Office
Residence	Mumbai
Nominator	Committee consisting of members of the Indian National Congress from the National
Appointer	National President
Term length	no term limit
Constituting instrument	Constitution of the Indian National Congress
Precursor	Balasaheb Thorat
Formation	1 May 1960
First holder	Abasaheb Khedkar; (1960-1963)
Website	www.inc.in

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
Abbreviation	MPCC or Maharashtra PCC
Leader	Prithviraj Chavan
President	Nana Patole
Chairman	Balasaheb Thorat ; (Leader of Congress Legislature Party Maharashtra Legislature)
Secretary	Vijay Namdevrao Wadettiwar ; (Leader of the Opposition Maharashtra Legislative Assembly)
Headquarters	Tilak Bhawan, Kaka Saheb Gadgil Marg, Dadar, Mumbai-400025, Maharashtra Gandhi Bhawan, Colaba Causeway, Mumbai-400 005, Maharashtra
Student wing	Maharashtra NSUI
Youth wing	Maharashtra Youth Congress
Women's wing	Maharashtra Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee
Ideology	Civic nationalism; Social liberalism; Social democracy; Secularism; Economic liberalism;
Political position	Centre
Alliance	Maha Vikas Aghadi
Seats in Lok Sabha	13 / 48
Seats in Rajya Sabha	3 / 19
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly	41 / 288
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council	10 / 78
Election symbol
	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. 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 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.

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections

Year	Party leader	Change in Seats	Seat won	Outcome
Bombay Presidency
1937	B.G. Kher	86	86 / 175 (49%)	Government
1946	B.G. Kher	39	125 / 175 (71%)	Government
Bombay State
1952	Morarji Desai	94	269 / 315 (85%)	Government
1957	Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan	35	234 / 396 (59%)	Government
Maharashtra State
1962	Marotrao Kannamwar	215	215 / 264 (81%)	Government
1967	Vasantrao Naik	12	203 / 270 (75%)	Government
1972	Vasantrao Naik	19	222 / 270 (82%)	Government
1978	Vasantdada Patil	153	69 / 288 (24%)	Opposition
1980	A. R. Antulay	117	186 / 288 (65%)	Government
1985	Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar	25	161 / 288 (56%)	Government
1990	Sharad Pawar	20	141 / 288 (49%)	Government
1995	Sharad Pawar	61	80 / 288 (28%)	Opposition
1999	Vilasrao Deshmukh	5	75 / 288 (26%)	Government
2004	Vilasrao Deshmukh	6	69 / 288 (24%)	Government
2009	Ashok Chavan	13	82 / 288 (28%)	Government
2014	Prithviraj Chavan	40	42 / 288 (15%)	Opposition
2019	Balasaheb Thorat	2	44 / 288 (15%)	Opposition
2024	Nana Patole	TBA	TBA	TBA

Seats won in Maharashtra Lok Sabha Elections

Lok Sabha Election	Seats Won	Seat Change	Composition
1951 Lok Sabha Election	41	41	41 / 45 (91%)
1957 Lok Sabha Election	20	21	20 / 45 (44%)
1962 Lok Sabha Election	39	19	39 / 45 (87%)
1967 Lok Sabha Election	36	3	36 / 45 (80%)
1971 Lok Sabha Election	39	3	39 / 45 (87%)
1977 Lok Sabha Election	13	26	13 / 48 (27%)
1980 Lok Sabha Election	42	4	42 / 48 (88%)
1984 Lok Sabha Election	43	1	43 / 48 (90%)
1989 Lok Sabha Election	12	3	12 / 48 (25%)
1991 Lok Sabha Election	19	7	19 / 48 (40%)
1996 Lok Sabha Election	13	6	13 / 48 (27%)
1998 Lok Sabha Election	29	16	29 / 48 (60%)
1999 Lok Sabha Election	10	19	10 / 48 (21%)
2004 Indian general election in Maharashtra	13	3	13 / 48 (27%)
2009 Indian general election in Maharashtra	17	4	17 / 48 (35%)
2014 Indian general election in Maharashtra	2	15	2 / 48 (4%)
2019 Indian general election in Maharashtra	1	1	1 / 48 (2%)
2024 Indian general election in Maharashtra	13	12	13 / 48 (27%)

Status in Municipal Corporations

Municipal Corporation	Seats	Status
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation	31 / 227	Opposition
Pune Municipal Corporation	9 / 162	Opposition
Nagpur Municipal Corporation	29 / 151	Opposition
Thane Municipal Corporation	3 / 131	Opposition
Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation	0 / 128	Opposition
Nashik Municipal Corporation	6 / 122	Opposition
Solapur Municipal Corporation	14 / 102	Opposition
Amravati Municipal Corporation	15 / 87	Opposition
Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation	1 / 78	Coalition Partner
Akola Municipal Corporation	13 / 80	Opposition
Jalgaon Municipal Corporation	0 / 70
Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation	5 / 68	Opposition
Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation	13 / 111	Opposition
Sangali-Miraj-Kupwad Municipal Corporation	24 / 78	Coalition Partner
Panvel Municipal Corporation	2 / 78	Opposition
Parbhani Municipal Corporation	30 / 65	Government
Nanded-Waghala Municipal Corporation	73 / 81	Government
Malegaon Municipal Corporation	28 / 84	Government
Dhule Municipal Corporation	6 / 74	Opposition
Latur Municipal Corporation	36 / 70	Government
Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation	10 / 95	Opposition
Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation	1 / 115	Opposition
Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation	47 / 90	Government
Kolhapur Municipal Corporation	40 / 81	Government

List of Presidents

S.no	President	Term
1.	Abasaheb Khedkar	1960	1963
2.	Vinayakrao Patil	1963	1967
3.	Vasantdada Patil	1967	1972
4.	P. K. Sawant	1972	1978
5.	Narendra Tidke	1978	1978
6.	Nashikrao Tirpude	1978	1979
7.	Ramrao Adik	1979	1980
8.	Premala Chavan	1980	1981
9.	Gulabrao Patil	1981	1982
10.	S M I Asir	1983	1983
11.	N. M. Kamble	1983	1985
12.	Prabha Rau	1985	1988
13.	Pratibha Patil	1988	1989
(11).	N. M. Kamble	1989	1990
14.	Sushilkumar Shinde	1990	1991
15.	Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar	1991	1992
16.	Shivajirao Deshmukh	1992	1993
(14).	Sushilkumar Shinde	1993	1997
17.	Ranjeet Deshmukh	1997	1998
18.	Prataprao Baburao Bhosale	1998	2000
19.	Govindrao Adik	2000	2003
(17).	Ranjeet Deshmukh	2003	2004
(12).	Prabha Rau	2004	2008
20.	Patangrao Kadam	2008	2008
21.	Manikrao Thakare	2008	2015
22.	Ashok Chavan	2015	2019
23.	Balasaheb Thorat	2019	2021
24.	Nana Patole	2021	Incumbent

Officeholders

Source:^[3]

Parliamentary Board

1. Shri. Nana Patole

2. Shri. Balasaheb Thorat

5. Shri. Prithviraj Chavan

6. Shri. Sushilkumar Shinde

7. Shri. Mukul Wasnik

8. Smt. Rajani Patil

9. Shri. Dr. Nitin Raut

10. Shri. Avinash Pande

11. Shri. Muzzafar Hussain

12. Shri. Vilas Muttemwar

13. Shri. Manikrao Thakare

14. Shri.Bhai Jagtap

15. Shri. K. C. Padavi

16. Shri. Vijay Wadettiwar

17. Smt. Varsha Gaikwad

18. Shri. Sunil C. Kedar

Structure and Composition

S.No.	Name	Designation	Incharge
01	Nana Patole	President	Maharashtra Pradesh Congress
02	Shivajirao Moghe	Working President	Maharashtra Pradesh Congress
03	Naseem Khan	Working President	Maharashtra Pradesh Congress
04	Kunal Rohidas Patil	Working President	Maharashtra Pradesh Congress
05	Chandrakant Handore	Working President	Maharashtra Pradesh Congress
06	Praniti Shinde	Working President	Maharashtra Pradesh Congress

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.^[5]

Frontal organisations

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress OBC

Shri Datta Avhad,Working President.

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Sevadal

Shri. Vilas Autade, Chief Organizer.

Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress

shri. Kunal Nitin Raut

President, Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress

Adv. Nikhil Kamble,

Chairman, Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress 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. Sandeep Maurya,

National Convenor NSUI RTI & In-charge Mumbai University

Maharashtra Prasdesh Congress Committee-Internal- Department and Cell

 * Yogesh Masalge Patil - President
 * Employment and Self Employment Department

List of chief ministers of Maharashtra from the Congress Party

#	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Yashwantrao Chavan	1 November 1956	19 November 1962
3rd Assembly Elections (1962)
2	Marotrao Kannamwar	20 November 1962	24 November 1963
3	Vasantrao Naik	5 December 1963	20 February 1975
4	Shankarrao Chavan	21 February 1975	17 May 1977
5	Vasantdada Patil	17 May. 1977	7 March 1978
7th Assembly Elections (1980)
7	Abdul Rehman Antulay	9 June 1980	12 January 1982
8	Babasaheb Bhosale	21 January 1982	1 February 1983
9	Vasantdada Patil (3rd Term)	2 February 1983	1 June 1985
8th Assembly Elections (1985)
10	Shivajirao Nilangekar Patil	3 June 1985	6 March 1986
11	Shankarrao Chavan	12 March 1986	26 June 1988
12	Sharad Pawar (2nd Term)	26 June 1988	25 June 1991
9th Assembly Elections (1991)
13	Sudhakarrao Naik	25 June 1991	22 February 1993
14	Sharad Pawar (3rd Term)	6 March 1993	14 March 1995
11th Assembly Elections (1999)
15	Vilasrao Deshmukh (1st Term)	18 October 1999	16 January 2003
16	Sushil Kumar Shinde	18 January 2003	30 October 2004
12th Assembly elections (2004)
19	Vilasrao Deshmukh (2nd Term)	1 November 2004	4 December 2008
20	Ashok Chavan	8 December 2008	5 November 2010
21	Prithviraj Chavan	6 November 2010	25 September 2014

Performance in state elections

Year	General election	Votes polled (%)	Seats won
1962	3rd Assembly	56,17,347	215
1962	3rd Lok Sabha	58,95,958	41
1967	4th Assembly	62,88,564	203
1967	4th Lok Sabha	66,18,181	37
1971	5th Lok Sabha	87,90,135	42
1972	5th Assembly	85,35,832	222
1977	6th Lok Sabha	79,42,267	20
1978	6th Assembly	51,59,828	69
1980	7th Assembly	78,09,533	186
1980	7th Lok Sabha	98,55,580	39
1984	8th Lok Sabha	1,11,83,424	43
1985	8th Assembly	95,22,556	161
1989	9th Lok Sabha	1,24,96,088 (45.36%)	28
1990	9th Assembly	1,13,34,773 (38.17%)	141
1991	10th Lok Sabha	1,12,80,003 (48.4%)	38
1995	10th Assembly	1,19,41,832 (31%)	80
1996	11th Lok Sabha	98,64,853 (34.78%)	15
1998	12th Lok Sabha	1,37,44,283 (43.64%)	33
1999	13th Lok Sabha	98,12,144 (29.71%)	10
1999	11th Assembly	89,37,043 (27.20%)	75
2004	14th Lok Sabha	81,43,246 (23.77%)	13
2004	12th Assembly	88,10,363 (21.06%)	69
2009	15th Lok Sabha	72,53,634 (19.61%)	17
2009	13th Assembly	95,21,703 (21.01%)	82
2014	16th Lok Sabha	88,30,190 (18.29%)	2
2014	14th Assembly	94,96,095 (17.95%)	42
2019	17th Lok Sabha	87,92,237 (16.41%)	1
2019	15th Assembly	87,52,199 (15.87%)	44
2024	18th Lok Sabha	96,41,856 (16.92%)	17

List of Congress MLAs

No.	Constituency	Name
1	Akkalkuwa (ST)	K. C. Padavi	INC
2	Navapur (ST)	Shirishkumar Naik	INC
3	Dhule Rural	Kunal Rohidas Patil	INC
4	Raver	Shirish Chaudhari	INC
5	Malkapur	Rajesh Ekade	INC
6	Risod	Amit Zanak	INC
7	Amravati	Sulbha Khodke	INC
8	Teosa	Yashomati Thakur	INC
9	Daryapur (SC)	Balwant Wankhade	INC
10	Deoli	Ranjit Kamble	INC
11	Savner	Sunil Kedar	INC
12	Umred (SC)	Raju Devnath Parwe	INC
13	Nagpur West	Vikas Pandurang Thakre	INC
14	Nagpur North (SC)	Dr. Nitin Raut	INC
15	Sakoli	Nanabhau Patole	INC
16	Amgaon (ST)	Sahasram Maruti Korote	INC
17	Rajura	Subhash Dhote	INC
18	Bramhapuri	Vijay Namdevrao Wadettiwar	INC
19	Warora	Pratibha Dhanorkar	INC
20	Hadgaon	Madhavrao Nivruttirao Patil Jawalgaonkar	INC
21	Bhokar	Ashok Chavan	INC
22	Nanded South	Mohanrao Marotrao Hambarde	INC
23	Deglur (SC)	Raosaheb Antapurkar	INC
24	Pathri	Suresh Warpudkar	INC
25	Jalna	Kailas Gorantyal	INC
26	Igatpuri (ST)	Hiraman Khoskar	INC
27	Malad West	Aslam Shaikh	INC
28	Vandre East	Zeeshan Siddique	INC
29	Dharavi (SC)	Varsha Gaikwad	INC
30	Mumbadevi	Amin Patel	INC
31	Purandar	Sanjay Jagtap	INC
32	Bhor	Sangram Anantrao Thopate	INC
33	Sangamner	Balasaheb Thorat	INC
34	Shrirampur (SC)	Lahu Kanade	INC
35	Latur Rural	Dhiraj Deshmukh	INC
36	Latur City	Amit Deshmukh	INC
37	Solapur City Central	Praniti Shinde	INC
38	Karad South	Prithviraj Chavan	INC
39	Kolhapur South	Ruturaj Patil	INC
40	Karvir	P. N. Patil	INC
41	Kolhapur North	Chandrakant Jadhav	INC
42	Hatkanangle (SC)	Raju Awale	INC
43	Palus-Kadegaon	Vishwajeet Kadam	INC
44	Jat	Vikramsinh Balasaheb Sawant	INC

Citations

^ Patterson, M.L., 1954. Caste and Political Leadership in Maharashtra. The Economic Weekly, pp. 1066–7.
^ Dahiwale, S. M. (1995). "Consolidation of Maratha Dominance in Maharashtra Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 30, No. 6 (Feb. 11, 1995), pp. 336–342 Published by". Economic and Political Weekly. 30 (6): 336–342. JSTOR 4402382.
^ "Nana Patole appointed Congress state president; new responsibilities to Praniti Shinde, Naseem Khan | english.lokmat.com". Lokmat English. 5 February 2021.
^ "Constitution & Rules of the Indian National Congress" (PDF). Indian National Congress. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
^ "Mallikarjun Kharge, Shashi Tharoor in Mumbai this week for campaign". The Times of India. 5 October 2022.

General sources

News Network of India

External links

Official website

[1] Patterson, M.L., 1954. Caste and Political Leadership in Maharashtra. The Economic Weekly, pp. 1066–7.

[2] Dahiwale, S. M. (1995). "Consolidation of Maratha Dominance in Maharashtra Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 30, No. 6 (Feb. 11, 1995), pp. 336–342 Published by". Economic and Political Weekly. 30 (6): 336–342. JSTOR 4402382.

[3] "Nana Patole appointed Congress state president; new responsibilities to Praniti Shinde, Naseem Khan | english.lokmat.com". Lokmat English. 5 February 2021.

[CONSTITUTION-4] "Constitution & Rules of the Indian National Congress" (PDF). Indian National Congress. Retrieved 13 May 2021.

[5] "Mallikarjun Kharge, Shashi Tharoor in Mumbai this week for campaign". The Times of India. 5 October 2022.

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