Indian politician
Narayan Tatu Rane
(born 10 April 1952) is an Indian politician and former
Chief Minister
of
Maharashtra
. He currently serves 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
.
[4]
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.
[5]
On 15 October 2019, merged his party,
Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha
, into the BJP.
[6]
Personal life
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Narayan Rane was born to Tatu Sitaram Rane and Laxmibai Rane in Chembur, Mumbai, Maharashtra. He dropped out from 11th grade. He has two sons:
Nilesh
and
Nitesh Rane
. Nitesh is a politician and member of the
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
.
[7]
[8]
Political career
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Shiv Sena
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Rane joined
Shiv Sena
in his early twenties and started his political career as local
Shakha Pramukh at Chembur, Mumbai.
[9]
He then became the Councillor of
Kopargaon
.
[10]
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.
[11]
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."
[12]
[13]
Indian National Congress
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Rane joined the
Indian National Congress
in 2005, receiving his old post as Revenue Minister under the
Second Desmukh Ministry
.
[14]
[15]
In a 2005 by-election, he won re-election from his old
Malvan
seat in the
Konkan
region on a Congress ticket.
[16]
[17]
In the wake of
2008 Mumbai attacks
,
Vilasrao Deshmukh
, then Chief Minister of Maharashtra resigned, and
Sonia Gandhi
elevated
Ashok Chavan
as Chief Minister.
[18]
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.
[19]
Prithviraj Chavan
appointed Rane as Minister of Industry in his first ministry, elevating
Balasheb Thorat
to Rane's old Revenue portfolio.
[20]
Rane resigned from the Cabinet in July 2014 over differences with the party's leadership on the INC's campaign effort.
[21]
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.
[22]
In 2016, the INC appointed Rane as a member of the
Maharashtra Legislative Council
.
[
citation needed
]
The appointment did not suppress the increasingly public feud between Rane and Congress leadership, however, prompting speculation about Rane's future in the party.
[23]
On 21 September 2017, Rane resigned both from the INC and from his membership on the Maharashtra Legislative Council.
[24]
[25]
Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha
[
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]
Through press at the time expected Rane's resignation to result in an appointment to
Devendra Fadnavis
's cabinet,
[26]
Shiv Sena, still led by Rane's longtime rival
Uddhav Thackeray
, threatened to withdraw from the BJP-led coalition if Rane was admitted.
[27]
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
.
[28]
[29]
[30]
However, when Rane ran for Rajya Sabha in 2018, he did so under a BJP party line.
[31]
Bharatiya Janata Party
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Rane merged his party,
Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha
, with the
Bharatiya Janata Party
on October 15, 2019.
[32]
Following that
year's legislative assembly elections
in Maharashtra, the BJP-Sena alliance broke down completely.
[33]
During the
July 2021 Cabinet reshuffle
, 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.
[34]
[35]
Newspaper
Prahaar
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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.
[36]
[37]
Controversies
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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.
[38]
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.
[39]
In August 2021, while traveling under the BJP Jan Ashirwad Yatra initiative (a program under which Modi ministers traveled their home constituencies and regions
[40]
), 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.
[41]
Rane went on to declare that, "Had I been there, I would have given him a slap."
[42]
Maharashtra Police
arrested Rane in
Ratnagiri
on 24 August.
[43]
[44]
A court conditionally granted him bail the following day.
[45]
In February 2022, an F.I.R. was registered against Rane for allegedly making defamatory and false statements about Disha Salian's death.
[46]
See also
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References
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2022
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.
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.
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2021
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2022
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.
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