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Sushilkumar Shinde

Sushilkumar Shinde is an Indian politician and the former Minister of Home Affairs in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. He is also the former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and also has served as the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha. He is known to be close to the Gandhi family and has also worked as the Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi’s election manager in Amethi. He has also served as the Power Minister. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, he contested the election from the Congress Party but was defeated in the election by a margin of 149,674 votes by Sharad Bansode of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Born on 4th September 1941 at Solapur in a Marathi family, he was born to poor family to father Sambhajirao Shinde and mother Sakhu Bai. His family belonged to a Dalit caste. He completed his schooling from Solapur and later he went to Sangameshwar and Dayanand College in Solapur for his B.A. and L.L.B degree. Later he also studied in Shivaji University, Kolhapur, and Maharashtra and in New Law College University of Bombay. After completing his education, he started his career as a bailiff in Solapur sessions court and later he joined the Maharashtra State Police as a constable and served as sub inspector of police in Maharashtra state CID for six years under Amukuraj Patil. Later he decided to join politics and contested from Karmala Assembly, his home district of Solapur in 1974. He went on to become a junior minister in the Government of the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra VP Naik. Later, Shinde resigned from the Congress Party and joined the Progressive Democratic Front Government led by Sharad Pawar in 1978. However, he later rejoined Congress after the PDF was dismissed in 1980.He won the Maharashtra Assembly elections four times in 1978, 1980, 1985 and 1990. In this period, he became the Cabinet Minister, Youth and Social Welfare Minister, Planning, Finance, Health and Labour, Transport, Sports Later in 1990, he was appointed as the President of Pradesh Congress Committee Maharashtra and held this post till 1991. He then became the General Secretary of All India Congress Committee in 1992 and held this post till 1996. In the same period, he was a member of Rajya Sabha from 1992 to 1998. He was member on Committee of Rules Member, member on Committee on Defense member, Ministry of Defense, Consultative Committee. He was elected to 12th Lok Sabha in 1998 to 1999 (or 1998-99) and was re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha in 1999. He was appointed as the General Secretary of A.I.C.C in 1999. He was elected as the Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the 6th term in 2003 to 2004. He was re elected as Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly 7th term in 2004. He became to be known at the national level when he competed against Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of the National Democratic Alliance for Vice President. However, Shinde lost the elections. He became Chief Minister of Maharashtra in 2003. Later, he was sent to Andhra Pradesh as a Governor after his position as Chief Minister was taken up by Vilasrao Deshmukh in 2004. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2006 and became Power Minister. After completing his tenure, he was again appointed as Union Cabinet Minister for Home Affairs in 2012. In 2014 Genaral elections, Shinde was defeated by Sharad Bansode of BJP with a margin of 1,49,674 votes. 

Sushil Kumar Shinde is married to Ujwala Shinde and has three daughters. One of his daughters, Praniti Shinde, is a Congress MLA from Solapur constituency in Maharashtra. Sushilkumar Shinde came under intense criticism by the Indian media for addressing Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and his alleged conspirators for Mumbai 26/11 Attacks, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed using honorifics like ‘Mr’ and ‘Shri’. He is a very well known and respected politician of Maharashtra and the 2014 release Marathi film Dusari Goshta is loosely based on his life and the movie is about a person who has a tough childhood and his journey to become a popular politician.

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  • Sushilkumar Shinde to Face Prakash Ambedkar, Lingayat Seer in His 'Last' Career Poll

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  • Congress Leader Sushilkumar Shinde Makes Sensational Claim, Says he Got Offer to Join BJP

    Congress Leader Sushilkumar Shinde Makes Sensational Claim, Says he Got Offer to Join BJP

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    Shinde had upon being questioned said that a person of his stature had approached him after his

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  • Sushilkumar Shinde Says, 'PM Modi Rarely Gives Credit to Constitution Which Made it Possible For a Chaiwala to Rise to Top'

    Sushilkumar Shinde Says, 'PM Modi Rarely Gives Credit to Constitution Which Made it Possible For a Chaiwala to Rise to Top'

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    Shinde was speaking at a book launch in Panaji.

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  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi says many things does nothing, says Sushilkumar Shinde

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi says many things does nothing, says Sushilkumar Shinde

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    In January, seven Indians were killed when six terrorists attacked the Pathankot air base.

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  • Congress to meet President tomorrow on HCU issue: Sushilkumar Shinde

    Congress to meet President tomorrow on HCU issue: Sushilkumar Shinde

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    It is government's responsibility to remove him from the university and entrust him with some other

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  • Sushilkumar Shinde says no Ishrat Jahan file came to him

    Sushilkumar Shinde says no Ishrat Jahan file came to him

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    "I have no idea about this. The Ishrat Jahan case file never came to me," Shinde told PTI here.

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  • Sushilkumar Shinde says no Ishrat Jahan file came to him

    Sushilkumar Shinde says no Ishrat Jahan file came to him

    Press Trust of India | March 4, 2016 10:20 PM IST

    "I have no idea about this. The Ishrat Jahan case file never came to me," Shinde told PTI here.

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  • Maharashtra politicians come together to wish Sharad Pawar on birthday

    Maharashtra politicians come together to wish Sharad Pawar on birthday

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    Maharashtra politicians across the party lines today came together and showered praise on the NCP

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  • 5 political leaders who threatened the media

    5 political leaders who threatened the media

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  • Watch: Will Sushilkumar Shinde be Maharashtra Chief Minister again?

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  • Sushilkumar Shinde comes out in support of Maharashtra Chief Minister

    Sushilkumar Shinde comes out in support of Maharashtra Chief Minister

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    Describing the crushing defeat of Congress in the Lok Sabha elections as "unfortunate", Shinde, who

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  • Sushilkumar Shinde fears for safety of women if Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister

    Sushilkumar Shinde fears for safety of women if Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister

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    Shinde said that a judge will be appointed soon to probe the Snoopgate row.

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  • Snoopgate: Amit Shah rejects Priyanka Gandhi’s attack on Narendra Modi

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  • Maharashtra Polls: Around 40 percent vote

    Maharashtra Polls: Around 40 percent vote

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    According to election officials, an average of between 40-45 percent voting was recorded till 3

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  • Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde vows to take revenge for Chhattisgarh Naxal attack

    Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde vows to take revenge for Chhattisgarh Naxal attack

    Press Trust of India | March 12, 2014 6:56 PM IST

    Shinde vowed to take "revenge" for Naxal ambush in which 15 security personnel and a civilian were

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  • Should Sushilkumar Shinde worry about social media or LeT?

    Should Sushilkumar Shinde worry about social media or LeT?

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  • Is Sushilkumar Shinde the Home Minister of India or Fool Minister?

    Is Sushilkumar Shinde the Home Minister of India or Fool Minister?

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  • Shinde clarifies on threat to ‘crush’ electronic media, says was referring to social media

    Shinde clarifies on threat to ‘crush’ electronic media, says was referring to social media

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    Shinde had on Sunday evening threatened to "crush" the electronic media, alleging a section of it

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