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

1. Shri. Nana Patole
2. Shri. Balasaheb Thorat
3. Shri. Prithviraj Chavan
4. Shri. Sushilkumar Shinde
5. Shri. Mukul Wasnik
6. Smt. Rajani Patil
7. Shri. Dr. Nitin Raut
8. Shri. Avinash Pande
9. Shri. Muzzafar Hussain
10. Shri. Vilas Muttemwar
11. Shri. Manikrao Thakare
12. Shri.Bhai Jagtap
13. Shri. K. C. Padavi
14. Shri. Vijay Wadettiwar
15. Smt. Varsha Gaikwad
16. 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

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Sevadal

Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress

President, Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress Chairman, Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress RTI-Department.

Maharashtra Pradesh Mahila Congress

Maharashtra Pradesh Indian National Trade Union Congress

Maharashtra Pradesh National Students Union of India

President. NSUI Maharashtra 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

Performance in state elections

List of Congress MLAs

Citations

General sources