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{{short description|Indian politician}}
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| name           = Mohan Joshi
| name               = Mohan Joshi
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| office   = Member of [[Maharashtra Legislative Council]]
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| party         = [[Indian National Congress]]
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| alma_mater    = Shri Shivaji Maratha School,Pune
| occupation         = Politician
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'''Mohan Joshi''' is an Indian politician from [[Pune]], Maharashtra and has been representing the [[Indian National Congress]] into various organizational and constitutional
capacities and is {{when|date=April 2009}}heading the [[Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee|MPCC]] as state general secretary since 2009 with incharge of [[Solapur]] District.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mahacongress.com/eng/state-organization/|title=State Organizations – Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref> He belongs to [[Pune]] [[Constituency]], Maharashtra. He is also heading [[Tennikoit]] Federation of India as chairman of the federation .<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiantennikoit.com/officials.html|title=Officials|website=indiantennikoit.com|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref> He is also the President of Maharashtra State Branch of All India [[Harijan Sevak Sangh]] founded by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in 1932.
==Early life==
{{BLP sources|date=June 2019}}
Born in Pune as elder son of Smt. Jamnabai Joshi and Shri. Ramkishan Joshi, initially took primary education Shri Shivaji Maratha High School, Pune .
==Social contribution==
Mohan Joshi engages himself in various constructive programs and heading the "[[Harijan Sevak Sangh]] as President of [[Maharashtra]] state.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loksatta.com/pune-news/mohan-joshi-become-harijan-sevak-sangh-chief-1247445/|title=महाराष्ट्र हरिजन सेवक संघाच्या अध्यक्षपदी मोहन जोशी|date=7 June 2016|website=Loksatta|language=mr-IN|access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>
Mohan Joshi has also been associated with the [[Akhil Bharatiya Rachanatmak Samaj]] as the President which predominantly works in upliftment of destitute children and women in the society.
Mentoring hundreds of the [[sportspersons]] in the city as President of Pune [[Tennikoit|Ring Tennis Association]] since last 20 years.
==Political career==
At initial a Journalist turned [[Indian Youth Congress|Youth Congress]] Activist.
* President of [[Pune]] [[Indian Youth Congress|Youth Congress]]-1972
* President of [[Maharashtra]] [[Indian Youth Congress|Youth Congress]]-1987
* He is President of [[Harijan Sevak Sangh]] Maharashtra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loksatta.com/pune-news/mohan-joshi-become-harijan-sevak-sangh-chief-1247445/|title=महाराष्ट्र हरिजन सेवक संघाच्या अध्यक्षपदी मोहन जोशी|date=7 June 2016|website=Loksatta|language=mr-IN|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gandhicreationhss.org/orgsture.php|title=Welcome To Harijan Sevak Sangh|website=gandhicreationhss.org|access-date=17 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127210641/http://www.gandhicreationhss.org/orgsture.php|archive-date=27 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
It was under his leadership, all the elections held during 1997 to 2004 timeline, the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] won all the elections for the Parliament, the [[State Assembly]] as well as the [[Pune Municipal Corporation]]. It is worth mentioning that the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] won the [[Municipal corporation]] elections with a thumping majority under his leadership.
He also served as the Working President of [[Pune General Workers Union]] for many years uplifting and fighting the labor issues throughout.
Currently he is working as the advisor & honorary member of various Pune city-based trusts and [[voluntary organizations]].
* '''[[Lok Sabha]] Elections in 1999 :'''
Joshi was [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] candidate for the Parliament elections from [[Pune]] constituency in 1999. It was a triangular fight between the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]], the [[Nationalist Congress Party]] and the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]. Strong division of votes were divided between [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] and [[Nationalist Congress Party]], [[Mohan Joshi Congress Leader|Mohan Joshi]] garnered {{formatnum:212000}} votes and secured the second position. The [[Nationalist Congress Party|NCP]] candidate, who was the then sitting Member of Parliament, slid down to the third position.
* '''[[Lok Sabha]] elections 2004:'''
Congress & NCP had decided to contest the Parliament Elections in an alliance in 2004, Joshi had earned the claim for the [[Pune]] seat for Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/race-on-for-pune-ticket-as-mpcc-wants-to-dump-kalmadi/1212267/|title=Race on for Pune ticket as MPCC wants to dump Kalmadi – Indian Express|website=The Indian Express|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref> [[Indian National Congress|He had also]] expressed the desire to contest from Pune Constituency. He was denied the nomination stating internal reasons. [[Mohan Joshi Congress Leader|Mohan Joshi]] accepted the Party High Command's decision and worked relentlessly for party's candidate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/aicc-observer-in-town-cong-factions-gird-up-their-loins/|title=AICC observer in town,Cong factions gird up their loins|date=28 February 2009|website=The Indian Express|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/race-on-for-pune-ticket-as-mpcc-wants-to-dump-kalmadi/1212267/|title=Race on for Pune ticket as MPCC wants to dump Kalmadi – Indian Express|website=The Indian Express|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sakaltimes.com/maharashtra/maharashtra-congress-gears-2019-polls-16342|title=Maharashtra Congress gears up for 2019 polls|website=sakaltimes.com|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref>
* '''[[Lok Sabha]] elections 2019:'''


Mohan Joshi is [[congress]] Lok Sabha candidate from Pune Constituency for the general elections of 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Banerjee|first=Shoumojit|date=2019-04-03|title=Congress fields Mohan Joshi from Pune|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/congress-fields-mohan-joshi-from-pune/article26715395.ece|access-date=2021-03-05|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> He will be taking over [[BJP]]'s [[Girish Bapat]] as the main opposition candidate. Since 2014 BJP is ruling Pune Lok Sabha Constituency.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/congress-fields-mohan-joshi-against-bjps-girish-bapat-in-pune-2085887.html|title=Congress Fields Mohan Joshi Against BJP's Girish Bapat in Pune|website=News18|date=2 April 2019|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref>
'''Mohan Joshi''' is an Indian politician from [[Pune]], Maharashtra. He represents the [[Indian National Congress]] in various organizational and constitutional capacities, including as head of the [[Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee]] as state general secretary since 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mahacongress.com/eng/state-organization/|title=State Organizations – Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref> He belongs to the Pune Constituency. He is the president of the Maharashtra branch of [[Harijan Sevak Sangh]].


[[Mohan Joshi Congress Leader|Mohan Joshi]] has been currently working as the General Secretary of [[Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee]] since 2005 and also, a member of the Executive Committee of the State Unit since 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/congress-drops-old-members-in-state-committee-reshuffle/articleshow/61042424.cms|title=Congress drops old members in state committee reshuffle|last1=Kulkarni|first1=Prachee KulkarniPrachee|last2=Oct 12|first2=Pune Mirror {{!}} Updated|website=Pune Mirror|access-date=17 December 2018|last3=2017|last4=Ist|first4=02:30}}</ref>
==Career==
In 1972, Joshi was president of the Pune [[Indian Youth Congress|Youth Congress]]. In 1987, he was president of the Maharashta Youth Congress.
Under his leadership from 1997 to 2004, the [[Indian National Congress]] party won all the elections for the Parliament, the [[State Assembly]], and the [[Pune Municipal Corporation]]. He served as the working president of [[Pune General Workers Union]].{{When|date=July 2023}}


Since Last 17 Mohan Joshi has been imparting the Social Responsibility under a unique initiative "Seva Kartavya Tyag" to mark the birth of [[Sonia Gandhi|Smt. Sonia Gandhi.]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/cong-plans-campaign-to-counter-bjp/articleshow/61841386.cms|title=Congress plans campaign to counter BJP|website=The Times of India|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-congress-activists-feed-birds-to-mark-sonia-gandhi-s-birthday-2042496|title=Congress activists feed birds to mark Sonia Gandhi's birthday|date=9 December 2014|website=dna|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref>
In the [[1999 Lok Sabha elections]], Joshi was a Congress candidate for the Parliament elections from Pune constituency. Joshi received 212,000 votes and secured the second position. In 2002, in response to the alleged religious [[chauvinism]] of the [[Vishva Hindu Parishad|Vishwa Hindu Parishad]] (VHP), Joshi stormed into a VHP meeting and blackened the face of VHP leader [[Pravin Togadia|Parvin Togadia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Togadia faces Cong wrath |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Togadia-faces-Cong-wrath/articleshow/26103925.cms |access-date=17 December 2018 |website=The Times of India}}</ref>


* Mohan Joshi also served as the chairman and Director of [[Shri Lakshmi Co-Operative Bank]], [[Pune]].
Joshi served as General Secretary of [[Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee]] beginning in 2005 and as a member of the Executive Committee of the State Unit beginning in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kulkarni |first1=Prachee |date=October 12, 2017 |title=Congress drops old members in state committee reshuffle |url=https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/congress-drops-old-members-in-state-committee-reshuffle/articleshow/61042424.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218011023/https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/civic/congress-drops-old-members-in-state-committee-reshuffle/articleshow/61042424.cms |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 December 2018 |access-date=17 December 2018 |website=Pune Mirror}}</ref> From 2008 to 2010, he was a member of the Estimate Committee in the [[Maharashtra Legislative Council]].
* Mohan Joshi also undertook various international study tours for the cause of peace, democracy and youth development.
* Under the leadership of a Gandhian Late Smt. [[Nirmala Deshpande|Nirmaladidi Deshpande]], Mohan Joshi visited Pakistan and participated in the "World Peace Conference".
* Mohan Joshi also attended an "[[International Youth Festival]]" held in Moscow, [[USSR]] in 1985.
* Mohan Joshi was elected as the member of the prestigious [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] Parliamentarian Association study-tour of Europe and UK in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mohan-Joshi-Congress-MLC-from-Pune-has-been-selected-for-the-five-European-nation-tour-of-the-state-legislators-organised-by-Maharashtra-branch-of-Rashtrakul-Sansadiya-Mandal-/articleshow/9595994.cms|title=Mohan Joshi, Congress MLC from Pune has been selected for the five European nation tour of the state legislators organised by Maharashtra branch of Rashtrakul Sansadiya Mandal.|website=The Times of India|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref>


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In 2010, Joshi was nominated as a public representative of [[Pune University]]'s senate.<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 October 2013 |title=Appointed legislators rarely show up at Pune University senate meetings |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/appointed-legislators-rarely-show-up-at-pune-university-senate-meetings/ |access-date=19 December 2018 |website=The Indian Express}}</ref> Joshi was selected as a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentarian Association study-tour of Europe and the UK in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mohan Joshi, Congress MLC from Pune has been selected for the five European nation tour of the state legislators organised by Maharashtra branch of Rashtrakul Sansadiya Mandal. |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mohan-Joshi-Congress-MLC-from-Pune-has-been-selected-for-the-five-European-nation-tour-of-the-state-legislators-organised-by-Maharashtra-branch-of-Rashtrakul-Sansadiya-Mandal-/articleshow/9595994.cms |access-date=17 December 2018 |website=The Times of India}}</ref> Starting in 2011, he was the chairman of the Assurance Committee in the Maharashtra Legislative Council.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-07 |title=आमदार मोहन जोशी यांची आश्वासन समितीवर फेरनिवड |url=https://www.loksatta.com/pune-news/mla-mohan-joshi-re-elected-on-assurance-committee-247947/ |access-date=2018-12-30 |website=Loksatta |language=mr-IN}}</ref>


==Mark on Governance==
For the [[2019 Lok Sabha election]]s, Joshi was the Congress candidate for Pune constituency.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Banerjee|first=Shoumojit|date=2019-04-03|title=Congress fields Mohan Joshi from Pune|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/congress-fields-mohan-joshi-from-pune/article26715395.ece|access-date=2021-03-05|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> In 2014, [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] won the Pune Lok Sabha constituency.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/congress-fields-mohan-joshi-against-bjps-girish-bapat-in-pune-2085887.html|title=Congress Fields Mohan Joshi Against BJP's Girish Bapat in Pune|website=News18|date=2 April 2019|access-date=2019-04-02}}</ref>
* Nominated [[Member of Legislative Council]] of [[Maharashtra]].
* He was the member of the panel of the Chairmen, of [[Maharashtra Legislative Council]] since 2010.
* He was the member of the [[Estimate Committee]], [[Maharashtra Legislative Council]] from 2008 to 2010, and also on the [[Women's Rights and Welfare Committee]] 2008.
* He was the Chairman of the [[Assurance Committee]] [[Maharashtra Legislative Council]] from 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loksatta.com/pune-news/mla-mohan-joshi-re-elected-on-assurance-committee-247947/|title=आमदार मोहन जोशी यांची आश्वासन समितीवर फेरनिवड|date=2013-11-07|website=Loksatta|language=mr-IN|access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref>
* '''[[Senate]] Member of [[Pune University]]'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/appointed-legislators-rarely-show-up-at-pune-university-senate-meetings/|title=Appointed legislators rarely show up at Pune University senate meetings|date=26 October 2013|website=The Indian Express|access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>


==Controversies==
Joshi is president of the Maharashtra branch of [[Harijan Sevak Sangh]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 June 2016 |title=महाराष्ट्र हरिजन सेवक संघाच्या अध्यक्षपदी मोहन जोशी |url=https://www.loksatta.com/pune-news/mohan-joshi-become-harijan-sevak-sangh-chief-1247445/ |access-date=17 December 2018 |website=Loksatta |language=mr-IN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome To Harijan Sevak Sangh |url=http://www.gandhicreationhss.org/orgsture.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127210641/http://www.gandhicreationhss.org/orgsture.php |archive-date=27 November 2016 |access-date=17 December 2018 |website=gandhicreationhss.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 June 2016 |title=महाराष्ट्र हरिजन सेवक संघाच्या अध्यक्षपदी मोहन जोशी |url=https://www.loksatta.com/pune-news/mohan-joshi-become-harijan-sevak-sangh-chief-1247445/ |access-date=19 December 2018 |website=Loksatta |language=mr-IN}}</ref>
Response to the religious [[chauvinism]] of the [[Vishva Hindu Parishad|Vishwa Hindu Parishad]], [[Mohan Joshi Congress Leader|Mohan Joshi]] stormed into the [[Vishva Hindu Parishad|VHP]] meeting and blackened the face of the extremist leader of [[Vishva Hindu Parishad|VHP]]- Dr. [[Pravin Togadia|Parvin Togadia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Togadia-faces-Cong-wrath/articleshow/26103925.cms|title=Togadia faces Cong wrath|website=The Times of India|access-date=17 December 2018}}</ref>


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Mohan Joshi
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council
In office
2008–2014
Personal details
Born (1956-12-03) 3 December 1956 (age 69)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
ResidencePune
OccupationPolitician
Websitehttp://mohanjoshi.org

Mohan Joshi is an Indian politician from Pune, Maharashtra. He represents the Indian National Congress in various organizational and constitutional capacities, including as head of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee as state general secretary since 2009.[1] He belongs to the Pune Constituency. He is the president of the Maharashtra branch of Harijan Sevak Sangh.

Career[edit | edit source]

In 1972, Joshi was president of the Pune Youth Congress. In 1987, he was president of the Maharashta Youth Congress. Under his leadership from 1997 to 2004, the Indian National Congress party won all the elections for the Parliament, the State Assembly, and the Pune Municipal Corporation. He served as the working president of Pune General Workers Union.[when?]

In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, Joshi was a Congress candidate for the Parliament elections from Pune constituency. Joshi received 212,000 votes and secured the second position. In 2002, in response to the alleged religious chauvinism of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Joshi stormed into a VHP meeting and blackened the face of VHP leader Parvin Togadia.[2]

Joshi served as General Secretary of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee beginning in 2005 and as a member of the Executive Committee of the State Unit beginning in 2009.[3] From 2008 to 2010, he was a member of the Estimate Committee in the Maharashtra Legislative Council.

In 2010, Joshi was nominated as a public representative of Pune University's senate.[4] Joshi was selected as a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentarian Association study-tour of Europe and the UK in 2011.[5] Starting in 2011, he was the chairman of the Assurance Committee in the Maharashtra Legislative Council.[6]

For the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Joshi was the Congress candidate for Pune constituency.[7] In 2014, Bharatiya Janata Party won the Pune Lok Sabha constituency.[8]

Joshi is president of the Maharashtra branch of Harijan Sevak Sangh.[9][10][11]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "State Organizations – Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee". Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Togadia faces Cong wrath". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Kulkarni, Prachee (12 October 2017). "Congress drops old members in state committee reshuffle". Pune Mirror. Archived from the original on 18 December 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Appointed legislators rarely show up at Pune University senate meetings". The Indian Express. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Mohan Joshi, Congress MLC from Pune has been selected for the five European nation tour of the state legislators organised by Maharashtra branch of Rashtrakul Sansadiya Mandal". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "आमदार मोहन जोशी यांची आश्वासन समितीवर फेरनिवड". Loksatta (in मराठी). 7 November 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  7. ↑ Banerjee, Shoumojit (3 April 2019). "Congress fields Mohan Joshi from Pune". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Congress Fields Mohan Joshi Against BJP's Girish Bapat in Pune". News18. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "महाराष्ट्र हरिजन सेवक संघाच्या अध्यक्षपदी मोहन जोशी". Loksatta (in मराठी). 7 June 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  10. ↑ "Welcome To Harijan Sevak Sangh". gandhicreationhss.org. Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  11. ↑ "महाराष्ट्र हरिजन सेवक संघाच्या अध्यक्षपदी मोहन जोशी". Loksatta (in मराठी). 7 June 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
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