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Democracy, Government, Political Parties
Like all states in India, the head of state is the governor, appointed by the Central government.
His or her post is largely ceremonial. The Chief Minister is the head of government and is vested with most of the executive powers.
Maharashtra's capital is Mumbai, home to the Vidhan Sabha – the state assembly and Mantralaya, the administrative offices of the government.
It is also home to the Bombay High Court which has jurisdiction over Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territory of Daman and Diu.
The legislature convenes its budget and monsoon sessions in Mumbai, and the winter session in Nagpur, which was designated as the state's auxiliary capital.
Maharashtra's legislature is bicameral, one of the few states in India to have a bicameral type.
The Legislative Assembly – the Vidhan Sabha is the lower house consisting of directly elected members. The Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council) is the upper house, whose members are indirectly voted through an electoral college.
Maharashtra is allocated nineteen seats in the Rajya Sabha and forty-eight in the Lok Sabha, India's national parliament.
After India's independence, most of Maharashtra's political history was dominated by the Congress party. Maharashtra became a bastion of the Congress party producing stalwarts such as Y.B. Chavan, one of its most prominent Chief Ministers.
The party enjoyed near unchallenged dominance of the political landscape until 1995 when the right wing Shiv Sena and BJP secured an overwhelming majority in the state to form a coalition.
The Shiv Sena with its pro-Marathi stance renamed Bombay to Mumbai and also many other colonial institutions after historic local appellations.
After a split in the Congress party, former chief minister Sharad Pawar formed the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), but formed a coalition with the Congress to keep out the BJP-SS combine.
The 2004 elections saw the NCP gaining the largest number of seats to become the state's largest party, eroding much of the Shiv Sena's base.
Under a pre-poll power sharing agreement, the Chief Minister would be from the Congress while the deputy Chief Minister would be from the
NCP.
Chief
Minister
Shri.
Vilasrao Dadoji Deshmukh (born May 25, 1945) is an Indian politician from the economically backward Marathwada region of the state of Maharashtra. He is the Chief Minister of Maharashtra (Term: October 2004 - October 2009). He is a Maratha. He is from the Congress party.
He has been a minister in various governments in Maharashtra from 1982 to 1995 holding portfolios of revenue, cooperation, agriculture, home, industries and education.
He became the Chief Minister of Maharashtra in 1999 but had to step down in January 2003 and make way for Sushilkumar Shinde, a prominent Dalit face of Congress, following factionalism in the state unit of the party.
Telephone: +91-22-2202-5151,5222
Email: chiefminister@maharashtra.gov.in
Deputy
Chief Minister
Shri.
R. R. Patil, of Nationalist Congress Party, is the Deputy Chief Minister
of Maharashtra.
Telephone: +91-22-22022401/22025014
Email: DeputyChiefMinister@maharashtra.gov.in
Major National Political Parties in
Maharashtra
Reference:
http://www.maharashtra.gov.in
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