Narayan Rane | |
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| Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises | |
| In office 7 July 2021 – 11 June 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Nitin Gadkari |
| Succeeded by | Jitan Ram Manjhi |
| 13thChief Minister of Maharashtra | |
| In office 1 February 1999 – 17 October 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Manohar Joshi |
| Succeeded by | Vilasrao Deshmukh |
| Minister of Industry, Port & Employment, Maharashtra | |
| In office 20 November 2010 – October 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Rajendra Darda |
| Succeeded by | Subhash Desai |
| Minister of Revenue, Maharashtra | |
| In office 15 June 1996 – 1 February 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Sudhir Joshi |
| Succeeded by | Eknath Khadse |
| In office 16 August 2005 – 6 December 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Vilasrao Deshmukh |
| Succeeded by | Patangrao Kadam |
| In office 9 November 2009 – 19 November 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Patangrao Kadam |
| Succeeded by | Balasaheb Thorat |
| Minister for Industry, Maharashtra | |
| In office 10 February 2009 – 9 November 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Ashok Chavan |
| Succeeded by | Rajendra Darda |
| Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council | |
| In office 8 July 2016 – 22 September 2017 | |
| Constituency | Elected by MLAs[1] |
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 8 April 2018 – 2 April 2024[2] | |
| Succeeded by | Ashok Chavan |
| Constituency | Maharashtra |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 4 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Vinayak Raut |
| Constituency | Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg |
| 16thLeader of Opposition Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1999–2005 | |
| Preceded by | Madhukarrao pichad |
| Succeeded by | Ramdas Kadam |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1952-04-10)10 April 1952 (age 72) Bombay,Bombay State,India |
| Citizenship | India |
| Political 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 |
| Children | Nilesh Rane Nitesh Rane |
| Residence(s) | Malvan,Maharashtra,India |
| Education | [3] |
| Occupation | Politician |
Narayan Tatu Rane (born 10 April 1952) is an Indian politician andMember of Parliament, Lok Sabha fromRatnagiri-Sindhudurg. He was theChief Minister ofMaharashtra. He formerly serves asMinister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in theSecond Modi ministry. He has previously heldCabinet Ministry positions for Industry, Port, Employment and Self-employment; Revenue; and Industry in theGovernment of Maharashtra.[4]
He was a member ofShiv Sena and opposition leader of Vidhan Sabha until July 2005, when he joinedIndian National Congress party. He quit Congress in September 2017 and launched theMaharashtra Swabhiman Paksha. In 2018, he declared support forBharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and was elected to theRajya Sabha on a BJP nomination.[5] On 15 October 2019, merged his party,Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha, into the BJP.[6]
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 andNitesh Rane. Nitesh is a politician and member of theMaharashtra Legislative Assembly.[7][8]
Rane joinedShiv Sena in his early twenties and started his political career as local Shakha Pramukh at Chembur, Mumbai.[9] He then became the Councillor ofKopargaon.[10] Under the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition government, Rane first received the Revenue Ministry portfolio. He succeededManohar Joshi asChief 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 theOctober 1999 Maharashtra elections to anINC-NCP coalition. The election campaign opened a breach between Rane andUddhav 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]
Rane joined theIndian National Congress in 2005, receiving his old post as Revenue Minister under theSecond Deshmukh Ministry.[14][15] In a 2005 by-election, he won re-election from his oldMalvan seat in theKonkan region on a Congress ticket.[16][17] In the wake of2008 Mumbai attacks,Vilasrao Deshmukh, then Chief Minister of Maharashtra resigned, andSonia Gandhi elevatedAshok 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, elevatingBalasheb 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 the2014 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 theMaharashtra 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]
Through press at the time expected Rane's resignation to result in an appointment toDevendra Fadnavis's cabinet,[26] Shiv Sena, still led by Rane's longtime rivalUddhav 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 theMaharashtra Swabhiman Paksha and indicated it would ally withBharatiya Janata Party.[28][29][30] However, when Rane ran for Rajya Sabha in 2018, he did so under a BJP party line.[31]
Rane merged his party,Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha, with theBharatiya Janata Party on October 15, 2019.[32] Following thatyear's legislative assembly elections in Maharashtra, the BJP-Sena alliance broke down completely.[33] During theJuly 2021 Cabinet reshuffle, Modi elevated Rane toMinister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Political writerAditi Phadnis interpreted this as a BJP attempt to make inroads in theMarathi strongholds of their former allies, Shiv Sena.[34][35]
Rane launched theMarathi dailyPrahaar 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]
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 formerChief 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 claimedUddhav Thackeray, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra following the2019 Maharashtra political crisis, forgot the year of India's independence during anIndependence 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 inRatnagiri 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]
| Preceded by Sudhir Joshi | Minister of Revenue 15 June 1996 – 1 February 1999 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chief Minister of Maharashtra 1 February 1999 – 17 October 1999 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Revenue 16 August 2005 – 6 December 2008 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Industry 20 February 2009 – 9 November 2009 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Patangrao Kadam | Minister of Revenue 9 November 2009 – 19 November 2010 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Industry, Port and Employment 20 November 2010 – October 2014 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 7 July 2021 – 9 June 2024 | Succeeded by |
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