• Source: Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee

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. 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. 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






Seats won in Maharashtra Lok Sabha Elections






Status in Municipal Corporations






List of Presidents






Officeholders


Source:




= Parliamentary Board

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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






= 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.




= 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

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




List of chief ministers of Maharashtra from the Congress Party






Performance in state elections






= List of Congress MLAs

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See also


All India Congress Committee
Congress Working Committee
Indian National Congress
Politics of Maharashtra
Pradesh Congress Committee




Citations






General sources


News Network of India




External links


Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
• Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee
• Nana Patole
• Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress
• Ashok Chavan
• Syed Muzaffar Hussain
• Baba Siddique
• Praniti Shinde
• Mumbai Regional Congress Committee
• Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee
• Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee