Manohar Joshi | |
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| 12th Chief Minister of Maharashtra | |
| In office 14 March 1995 – 31 January 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Sharad Pawar |
| Succeeded by | Narayan Rane |
| 13th Speaker of the Lok Sabha | |
| In office 10 May 2002 – 2 June 2004 | |
| President | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (also been aLeader of the House) |
| Deputy Speaker | P. M. Sayeed |
| Preceded by | G. M. C. Balayogi |
| Succeeded by | Somnath Chatterjee |
| Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises | |
| In office 19 October 1999 – 9 May 2002 | |
| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | Chandra Shekhar |
| Succeeded by | Anant Geete |
| Leader ofShiv Sena | |
| In office 19 June 1966 – 23 February 2024 | |
| President | Bal Thackeray (1966–2012) Uddhav Thackeray (2012–present) |
| Leader of the House Legislative Assembly Maharashtra | |
| In office 14 March 1995 – 31 January 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Sharad Pawar |
| Succeeded by | Narayan Rane |
| 13thLeader of the Opposition Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 22 March 1990 – 12 December 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Mrinal Gore |
| Succeeded by | Gopinath Munde |
| Mayor of Mumbai | |
| In office 1976–1977 | |
| Preceded by | Mehta |
| Succeeded by | Murli Deora |
| Member of Parliament,Loksabha | |
| In office 1999–2004 | |
| Preceded by | Ramdas Athawale |
| Succeeded by | Eknath Gaikwad |
| Constituency | Mumbai North Central |
| Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 2006–2012 | |
| Preceded by | Ram Jethmalani |
| Succeeded by | Anil Desai |
| Constituency | Maharashtra |
| Member ofMaharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1990–1999 | |
| Preceded by | Sharayu Thakur |
| Succeeded by | Vishakha Raut |
| Constituency | Dadar |
| Member ofMaharashtra Legislative Council | |
| In office 1972–1989 | |
| Constituency | Nominated |
| Councillor,Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation | |
| In office 1968–1972 | |
| Constituency | Dadar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1937-12-02)2 December 1937 Raigad,Bombay Province,British India |
| Died | 23 February 2024(2024-02-23) (aged 86) Mumbai,Maharashtra, India |
| Political party | Shiv Sena |
| Spouse | Anagha Joshi |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Sharvari Wagh (granddaughter) |
Manohar Gajanan Joshi (2 December 1937 – 23 February 2024) was an Indian politician from the state ofMaharashtra, who served as theChief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999, andSpeaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004. He was one of the prominent leaders of theShiv Sena, and also one of the Indians to be elected to all of the fourlegislatures. He was posthumously awarded thePadma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, by theGovernment of India in 2025.[1]
Joshi was born on 2 December 1937 in theMarathi-speakingBrahmin family of Gajanan Krishna Joshi and Saraswati Gajanan in Nandavi ofRaigad district inMaharashtra.[2][3][4] He received hisMasters of Arts andLLB degrees fromMumbai University.[citation needed] He married Anagha Joshi on 14 May 1964, with whom he had a son, Unmesh, and two daughters, Asmita and Namrata.[3][5] His granddaughter,Sharvari Wagh, made her debut as an actress with the 2021 filmBunty Aur Babli 2.[6]
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After receiving his MA in law[citation needed] he joinedBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as an officer[citation needed], but later started the Kohinoor technical/vocational training institute[citation needed] with the idea of an institute for semi–skilled youths to offer training as electricians, plumbers, TV/radio/scooter repairmen and photographers[citation needed]. Eventually, he started multiple branches of Kohinoor inMumbai[citation needed],Pune,[citation needed]Nagpur[citation needed],Nashik[citation needed], etc., and later he made an entry into construction and another capital-oriented business.[citation needed]
Manohar Joshi also founded the Kohinoor Business School[citation needed] &Kohinoor-IMI School of Hospitality Management[citation needed] inKhandala, Maharashtra. Later on he took Chancellorship of Dnyaneshwar Vidyapeeth.[7]
Joshi began his career by being elected as a municipal councillor inBombay Municipal Corporation in 1968 from theShiv Sena.[8]
In 1972 Joshi was elected to theMaharashtra Legislative Council,[8] where he served three terms until 1989.[citation needed] He became the Mayor ofMumbai during 1976 to 1977.[citation needed] He was elected to the Legislative Assembly from aShiv Sena ticket in 1990.[9]
Joshi became the first non-CongressChief Minister of Maharashtra when the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition came to power in 1995.[10] Technically, Sharad Pawar led thefirst non-Congress government in Maharashtra in 1978[citation needed] as a member ofSocialist Indian National Congress.[citation needed]
Joshi andBal Thackeray were explicitly named for inciting the Shivsainiks to violence against Muslims during the 1992–1993 riots[citation needed] in an inquiry ordered by thegovernment of India, the Srikrishna Commission Report.[citation needed] However, Joshi, then a part of the BJP-Sena government called the report "anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim and biased" and refused to adopt the commission's recommendations.[11][12]
As Chief Minister, he had permitted the release of a plot of land in Pune, reserved for a school, to a builder with ties to his son-in-law, Girish Vyas.[13] A housing complex, named Sundew, was built on that land by Vyas in 1998. Sustained legal efforts byVijay Kumbhar, an RTI activist from Pune,[14] led to Joshi's resignation in January 1999. In March 2009,Bombay High Court passed a verdict calling the housing complex illegal.[15] TheSupreme Court of India upheld the verdict in 2011 and fined Joshi Rs 15,000.[citation needed] Following its order, the building is now being used for a school.[16]
Joshi was promoted to the Lok Sabha when he won in Central Mumbai in the 1999 General Elections.[17] He was the Speaker of theLok Sabha from 2002 to 2004 during theNational Democratic Alliance (NDA) administration.[17]
Joshi was elected for a six-year term to the Rajya Sabha on 20 March 2006[18] after being defeated in the previous Lok Sabha election in the Central Mumbai constituency.[citation needed]
In September 2022, Manohar Joshi was appointed a key patron ofNLC Bharat.[19]
Manohar Joshi died inMumbai on 23 February 2024, at the age of 86.[citation needed] He had suffered a cardiac arrest a day earlier and been placed inHinduja hospital's intensive care unit[citation needed], dying the next day of age-related health complications.[20]
The Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party Government in Maharashtra has rejected the core of the report, which was presented before the two Houses of the legislature on August 6 along with a memorandum of action to be taken thereon. The Action Taken Report (ATR), seeks to establish that the report is one-sided. Going further, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi termed the report "anti-Hindu, pro-Muslim and biased."
The reports findings were presented to the government of Maharashtra on February 16, 1998, more than five years after the riots took place. The report determined that the riots were the result of a deliberate and systematic effort to incite violence against Muslims and singled out Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray and Chief Minister Manohar Joshi as responsible. The Shiv Sena-BJP government, however, refused to adopt the commission's recommendations and instead labeled the report anti-Hindu.
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