Narayan Rane | |
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2021 | |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 4 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Vinayak Raut |
| Constituency | Ratnagiri–Sindhudurg, Maharashtra |
| Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises | |
| In office 7 July 2021 – 9 June 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Nitin Gadkari |
| Succeeded by | Jitan Ram Manjhi |
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 3 April 2018 – 2 April 2024 | |
| Succeeded by | Ashok Chavan |
| Constituency | Maharashtra |
| Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council | |
| In office 8 July 2016 – 21 September 2017 | |
| Succeeded by | Prasad Lad |
| Constituency | elected by MLAs |
| Minister of Industries of Maharashtra | |
| In office 19 November 2010 – 21 July 2014 | |
| Chief Minister | Prithviraj Chavan |
| Preceded by | Rajendra Darda |
| Succeeded by | Prakash Mehta |
| In office 19 February 2009 – 7 November 2009 | |
| Chief Minister | Ashok Chavan |
| Minister of Ports of Maharashtra | |
| In office 19 November 2010 – 21 July 2014 | |
| Chief Minister | Prithviraj Chavan |
| Preceded by | Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil |
| Succeeded by | Devendra Fadnavis |
| Minister of Revenue of Maharashtra | |
| In office 7 November 2009 – 11 November 2010 | |
| Chief Minister | Ashok Chavan |
| Preceded by | Patangrao Kadam |
| Succeeded by | Balasaheb Thorat |
| In office 16 August 2005 – 8 December 2008 | |
| Chief Minister | Vilasrao Deshmukh |
| Preceded by | Vilasrao Deshmukh |
| Succeeded by | Patangrao Kadam |
| In office 15 June 1996 – 18 October 1999 | |
| Chief Minister | Manohar Joshi |
| Preceded by | Sudhir Joshi |
| Succeeded by | Ashok Chavan |
| Leader of the Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 22 October 1999 – 12 July 2005 | |
| Chief Minister | Vilasrao Deshmukh Sushilkumar Shinde |
| Preceded by | Madhukar Pichad |
| Succeeded by | Ramdas Kadam |
| 13th Chief Minister of Maharashtra | |
| In office 1 February 1999 – 18 October 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Manohar Joshi |
| Succeeded by | Vilasrao Deshmukh |
| Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development & Fisheries of Maharashtra | |
| In office 14 March 1995 – 15 June 1996 | |
| Chief Minister | Manohar Joshi |
| Preceded by | Madhukar Pichad |
| Succeeded by | Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil |
| Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2009–2014 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Vaibhav Naik |
| Constituency | Kudal |
| In office 1990–2009 | |
| Preceded by | Vijay Prabhugaonkar |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Constituency | Malvan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 April 1952 Bombay, Bombay State, India |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party (2019–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha (2017–2019) Indian National Congress (2005–2017) Shiv Sena (1968–2005) |
| Spouse | Neelam N. Rane |
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| Education | [1] |
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| Source: [1] | |
Narayan Tatu Rane (born 10 April 1952) is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg. He was a Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He formerly served as Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Second Modi ministry. He has previously held Cabinet Ministry positions for Industry, Port, Employment and Self-employment; Revenue; and Industry in the Government of Maharashtra.[2]
He was a member of Shiv Sena and opposition leader of Vidhan Sabha until July 2005, when he joined Indian National Congress party. He quit Congress in September 2017 and launched the Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha. In 2018, he declared support for Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and was elected to the Rajya Sabha on a BJP nomination.[3] On 15 October 2019, he merged his party, Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha, into the BJP.[4]
Personal life
Narayan Rane was born to Tatu Sitaram Rane and Laxmibai Rane in Chembur, Mumbai, Maharashtra. He dropped out of 11th grade. He has two sons: Nilesh and Nitesh Rane. Nitesh is a politician and member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.[5][6]
Political career
Shiv Sena
Rane joined Shiv Sena in his early twenties and started his political career as local Shakha Pramukh at Chembur, Mumbai.[7] He then became the Councillor of Kopargaon.[8] Under the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition government, Rane first received the Revenue Ministry portfolio. He succeeded Manohar Joshi as Chief Minister in 1999, when Joshi was forced to resign due to a land use controversy.[9] Later that year, the BJP-Sena alliance led by Rane lost the October 1999 Maharashtra elections to an INC-NCP coalition. The election campaign opened a breach between Rane and Uddhav Thackeray, the president of Shiv Sena. Relations between Thackeray and Rane finally ruptured completely in 2005, when Rane submitted his resignation from the party. In response Thackeray expelled Rane from the party on 3 July 2005, accusing Rane of "gangsterism" and "betrayal of the party."[10][11]
Indian National Congress
Rane joined the Indian National Congress in 2005, receiving his old post as Revenue Minister under the Second Deshmukh Ministry.[12][13] In a 2005 by-election, he won re-election from his old Malvan seat in the Konkan region on a Congress ticket.[14][15] In the wake of 2008 Mumbai attacks, Vilasrao Deshmukh, then Chief Minister of Maharashtra resigned, and Sonia Gandhi elevated Ashok Chavan as Chief Minister.[16] Rane accused Congress leadership of breaching its promises to make him Chief Minister, and was suspended by the party. After Rane apologized, the INC revoked this suspension.[17] Prithviraj Chavan appointed Rane as Minister of Industry in his first ministry, elevating Balasheb Thorat to Rane's old Revenue portfolio.[18] Rane resigned from the Cabinet in July 2014 over differences with the party's leadership on the INC's campaign effort.[19] The BJP and SHS went on to claim victory in the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, in which Rane lost his bid for re-election to a Shiv Sena candidate.[20]
In 2016, the INC appointed Rane as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council.[21] The appointment did not suppress the increasingly public feud between Rane and Congress leadership, however, prompting speculation about Rane's future in the party.[22] On 21 September 2017, Rane resigned both from the INC and from his membership on the Maharashtra Legislative Council.[23][24]
Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha
Though press at the time expected Rane's resignation to result in an appointment to Devendra Fadnavis's cabinet,[25] Shiv Sena, still led by Rane's longtime rival Uddhav Thackeray, threatened to withdraw from the BJP-led coalition if Rane was admitted.[26] Temporarily without a party, Rane formed a new political party in October 2017 called the Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha and indicated it would ally with Bharatiya Janata Party.[27][28][29] However, when Rane ran for Rajya Sabha in 2018, he did so under a BJP party line.[30]
Bharatiya Janata Party
Narayan Rane merged his party, Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha, with the Bharatiya Janata Party on October 15, 2019.[31] Following that year's legislative assembly elections in Maharashtra, the BJP-Sena alliance broke down completely.[32] During the July 2021 Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi elevated Rane to Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Political writer Aditi Phadnis interpreted this as a BJP attempt to make inroads in the Marathi strongholds of their former allies, Shiv Sena.[33][34] In 2024 he was elected as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha as a BJP candidate.
Newspaper Prahaar
Rane launched the Marathi daily Prahaar on 8 October 2008, under the ownership of Rane Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. While he serves as the Consulting Editor, journalist Madhukar Bhave is the editor of the newspaper.[35][36]
Controversies
In August 2011, Urban Development Deputy Secretary BK Gahart claimed in a deposition before the inquiry committee investigating the Adarsh Housing Society scam that while Rane was Chief Minister in the 1999 Shiv Sena-BJP ministry, he expedited a land allocation at the behest of Adarsh Housing Society.[37] The BJP-Sena opposition unsuccessfully campaigned for Rane's resignation as Industry Minister, but when the inquiry committee completed its report in April 2013, indicting four former Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, Rane was not included.[38]
In August 2021, while traveling under the BJP Jan Ashirwad Yatra initiative (a program under which Modi ministers traveled their home constituencies and regions[39]), Rane claimed Uddhav Thackeray, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra following the 2019 Maharashtra political crisis, forgot the year of India's independence during an Independence Day speech, requiring prompting by an aide.[40] Rane went on to declare that, "Had I been there, I would have given him a slap."[41] Maharashtra Police arrested Rane in Ratnagiri on 24 August.[42][43] A court conditionally granted him bail the following day.[44]
In February 2022, an F.I.R. was registered against Rane for allegedly making defamatory and false statements about Disha Salian's death.[45]
The Bombay High Court declined to grant interim relief to Union Minister Narayan Rane in a plea seeking protection from arrest concerning his controversial remarks about then-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Rane's petition, filed through his counsel Aniket Nikam, sought to quash multiple First Information Reports (FIRs) registered against him across Maharashtra. The court refused an urgent hearing on the matter, leading Rane's legal team to withdraw the plea with the liberty to approach a vacation bench.[46]
See also
References
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- ^ "महाराष्ट्र : नारायण राणे की आत्मकथा आने की खबर से". AR Live News. 5 May 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ "Will decide on future of my party within a week: Narayan Rane". The Economic Times. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
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- ^ "Video shows ex-CM Narayan Rane's MLA son Nitesh throwing slush on engineer". Hindustan Times.
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- ^ "Narayan Rane quits Congress in open show of revolt, but lacked similar fire when Shiv Sena abandoned him in 2005". Firstpost. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ "Rane expelled from Sena, attacks Bal Thackeray, Uddhav". outlookindia. 13 November 2019. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ Banerjee, Shoumojit (8 December 2017). "Narayan Rane". The Hindu. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ Priya Sahgal Delhi (5 December 2005). "Shiv Sena rebel Narayan Rane retains Malwan constituency in by-elections". India Today. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Ashok Chavan named Maharashtra CM". Rediff. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Narayan Rane: The 'Controversy King' Who Made it to PM Modi's Cabinet From a Street Gang in Mumbai". News18. 24 August 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Maharashtra portfolios: Ajit Pawar gets finance, Narayan Rane loses revenue". DNA India. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "'I am Congress mukt': Narayan Rane quits party; here's a look at former CM's journey". DNA India. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
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- ^ "Maharashtra Council polls: Narayan Rane among 10 candidates elected unopposed". DNA India. 3 June 2016.
- ^ "Congress leader Narayan Rane slams Ashok Chavan, hints at 'decision' during Navratri". Firstpost. 17 September 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ Shoumojit Banerjee (21 September 2017). "Finally, Narayan Rane quits Congress". The Hindu.
- ^ "Narayan Rane quits Chavan cabinet in Maharashtra". Patrika Group. No. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ "Ex-Congress leader Narayan Rane meets Amit Shah amid speculations on induction in BJP". Firstpost. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Ex-Congress leader Narayan Rane floats new party". rediff.com. MUMBAI. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ "Narayan Rane announces new political party". thehindu.com. MUMBAI. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ "Narayan Rane floats new party, to 'support' BJP govt in Maharashtra". timesofindia.com. MUMBAI. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ "Rane expected to form separate group in BMC". Free Press Journal. MUMBAI. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
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- ^ Banerjee, Shoumojit (15 October 2019). "Finally Konkan Strongman Narayan Rane joins BJP". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
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- ^ "Modi cabinet rejig: Full list of new ministers". India Today. 7 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
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- ^ "GRAND CEREMONY AND POWERFUL SPEECHES MARK NARAYAN RANE'S NEWSPAPER PRAHAAR'S LAUNCH". NMTV. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
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- ^ Anshuman, Kumar. "BJP ministers to start Jan Ashirwad Yatra from today". The Economic Times. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Narayan Rane: 'Would have slapped Uddhav Thackeray'; Narayan Rane's remarks draw Shiv Sena vs BJP clashes in Mumbai | Mumbai News - Times of India". The Times of India. 24 August 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Narayan Rane: India minister arrested over slap remark gets bail". BBC News. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Union Minister Narayan Rane Arrested Over "Slap Thackeray" Remark". NDTV.com. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ "Narayan Rane gets late night bail after arrest over 'would have slapped Uddhav Thackeray' remark". Firstpost. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Hours after arrest, Narayan Rane granted bail in 'slap Uddhav' remark case". The Indian Express. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
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