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Manohar Joshi

Manohar Gajanan Joshi (2 December 1937 – 23 February 2024) was an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra, who served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999, and Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004.

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Born ~ Died: Dec 2, 1937 ~ Feb 23, 2024
Governor: P. C. Alexander
Preceded by: Sharad Pawar
Succeeded by: Narayan Rane
President: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Deputy: P. M. Sayeed
Leader of the House: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by: G. M. C. Balayogi
Succeeded by: Somnath Chatterjee
Prime Minister: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by: Chandra Shekhar
Succeeded by: Anant Geete
President: Bal Thackeray (1966–2012), Uddhav Thackeray (2012–2022)
Preceded by: Sharad Pawar
Succeeded by: Narayan Rane
Preceded by: Mrinal Gore
Succeeded by: Gopinath Munde
Preceded by: Mehta
Succeeded by: Murli Deora
Preceded by: Ramdas Athawale
Succeeded by: Eknath Gaikwad
Constituency: Mumbai North Central, Maharashtra
Preceded by: Ram Jethmalani
Succeeded by: Anil Desai
Constituency: Maharashtra
Preceded by: Sharayu Thakur
Succeeded by: Vishakha Raut
Constituency: Dadar
Constituency: Nominated
Constituency: Dadar
Born: (1937-12-02)2 December 1937, Raigad, Bombay Province, British India
Died: 23 February 2024(2024-02-23) (aged 86), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Party: Shiv Sena
Spouse: Anagha Joshi
Children: 3
Relatives: Sharvari Wagh, (granddaughter)
Location: 18.6500, 72.8800

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Contents

1.Early life
2.Formation of Kohinoor
3.Political career
3.1.Early years
3.2.Chief Minister
3.3.Controversy and resignation
3.4.Lok Sabha and Speaker
3.5.National Legislator Conference
4.Death
5.Notes

Manohar Gajanan Joshi (2 December 1937 – 23 February 2024) was an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra, who served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999, and Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004. He was one of the prominent leaders of the Shiv Sena, and also one of the few Indians to be elected to all of the four legislatures. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, by the Government of India in 2025.¹

Early life

Joshi was born on 2 December 1937 in the Marathi-speaking Brahmin family of Gajanan Krishna Joshi and Saraswati Gajanan in Nandavi of Raigad district in Maharashtra.²³⁴ He received his Masters of Arts and LLB degrees from Mumbai University. He married Anagha Joshi on 14 May 1964, with whom he had a son, Unmesh, and two daughters, Asmita and Namrata.³⁵ His granddaughter, Sharvari Wagh, is a Bollywood actress who made her debut in the 2021 film Bunty Aur Babli 2.⁶

Formation of Kohinoor

After receiving his MA in law he joined Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as an officer, but later started the Kohinoor technical/vocational training institute with the idea of an institute for semi–skilled youths who could be trained as electricians, plumbers, TV/radio/scooter repairmen and photographers. Eventually, he started multiple branches of Kohinoor in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, etc., He later made an entry into construction and another capital-oriented business.

Manohar Joshi also founded the Kohinoor Business School & Kohinoor-IMI School of Hospitality Management in Khandala, Maharashtra. Later, he took on the Chancellorship of Dnyaneshwar Vidyapeeth.⁷

Political career

Early years

Joshi began his career by being elected as a municipal councillor in Bombay Municipal Corporation in 1968 from the Shiv Sena.⁸

In 1972 Joshi was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Council,⁸ where he served three terms until 1989. He became the Mayor of Mumbai during 1976 to 1977. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly from a Shiv Sena ticket in 1990.⁹

Chief Minister

Joshi became the first non-Congress Chief Minister of Maharashtra when the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition came to power in 1995.¹⁰ Technically, Sharad Pawar led the first non-Congress government in Maharashtra in 1978 as a member of Socialist Indian National Congress.

Controversy and resignation

Joshi and Bal Thackeray were explicitly named for inciting the Shivsainiks to violence against Muslims during the 1992–1993 riots in an inquiry ordered by the government of India, the Srikrishna Commission Report. 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.¹¹¹²

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 by Vijay 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 The Supreme Court of India upheld the verdict in 2011 and fined Joshi Rs 15,000. Following its order, the building is now being used for a school.¹⁶

Lok Sabha and Speaker

Joshi was promoted to the Lok Sabha when he won in Central Mumbai in the 1999 General Elections.¹⁷ He was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004 during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) administration.¹⁷

Joshi was elected for a six-year term to the Rajya Sabha on 20 March 2006¹⁸ after being defeated in the previous Lok Sabha election in the Central Mumbai constituency.

National Legislator Conference

In September 2022, Manohar Joshi was appointed a key patron of NLC Bharat.¹⁹

Death

Manohar Joshi died in Mumbai on 23 February 2024, at the age of 86. He had suffered a cardiac arrest a day earlier and been placed in Hinduja hospital's intensive care unit, dying the next day of age-related health complications.²⁰

Notes

"Padma Bhushan for Manohar Joshi, Sushil Modi; BJP's 'oldest worker' gets posthumous Padma Shri: Who got the awards for public affairs". Indian Express. 26 January 2025. Retrieved 26 January 2025. ↩
"Suddenly after three years I have become bad because I am a Brahmin". India Today. 29 March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2023. ↩
"Members Profile - Joshi, Shri Manohar". loksabhaph.nic.in. Archived from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022. ↩ ↩²
Joshi, Manohar (18 November 2012). "Balasaheb Thackeray stood behind his men like a mountain". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 3 August 2015. ↩
"अनघा मनोहर जोशी यांचे अल्पशा आजाराने निधन". TV9 Marathi (in Marathi). 3 August 2020. Archived from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

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"Padma Bhushan for Manohar Joshi, Sushil Modi; BJP's 'oldest worker' gets posthumous Padma Shri: Who got the awards for public affairs". Indian Express. 26 January 2025. Retrieved 26 January 2025. ↩
"Suddenly after three years I have become bad because I am a Brahmin". India Today. 29 March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2023. ↩
"Members Profile - Joshi, Shri Manohar". loksabhaph.nic.in. Archived from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022. ↩ ↩²
Joshi, Manohar (18 November 2012). "Balasaheb Thackeray stood behind his men like a mountain". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 3 August 2015. ↩
"अनघा मनोहर जोशी यांचे अल्पशा आजाराने निधन". TV9 Marathi (in Marathi). 3 August 2020. Archived from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022. ↩
"Did you know Bunty Aur Babli actress is Manohar Joshi's granddaughter?". Mid Day. 19 December 2019. Archived from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022. ↩
Marpakwar, Chaitanya (23 February 2024). "Manohar Joshi passes away: His journey from being a corporator to Maharashtra CM to Lok Sabha speaker". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024. ↩
"Manohar Joshi, former Maharashtra chief minister and Shiv Sena veteran, passes away". The Indian Express. 23 February 2024. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024. ↩ ↩²
"Former Speakers". Office of the Speaker of Lok Sabha, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012. ↩
Ananth, Venkat (28 October 2014). "A brief history of Maharashtra's chief ministers". mint. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 13 January 2021. ↩
"The Shiv Sena indicted". Frontlineonnet.com. Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013. 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." ↩
Smita Narula (1999). Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "untouchables". Human Rights Watch. ISBN 1564322289. Archived from the original on 25 February 2024. Retrieved 19 March 2018. 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. ↩
"Hand over Sundew Apartment or let PMC raze it: SC to Vyas Construction - Indian Express". Indian Express. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2020. ↩
"Victory for RTI activist in battle against former CM's son-in-law". mid-day. 13 October 2011. Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021. ↩
"Pune land controversy back to haunt Shiv Sena". Hindustan Times. 13 October 2011. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019. ↩
"Civic body starts school at Sundew apartments". The Times of India. 1 October 2013. Archived from the original on 15 November 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2019. ↩
"Manohar Joshi: From Mayor to First Non-Congress Maharashtra Chief Minister". ETV Bharat. 23 February 2024. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024. ↩ ↩²
"Arjun, Bhardwaj, Shinde elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha". Tribuneindia.com. 20 March 2006. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2020. ↩
"Ex-LS Speakers hold round table discussion to promote PM's mantra to "reform, perform and transform"". ANI News. 8 November 2022. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023. ↩
"Former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi dies of cardiac arrest". The Times of India. 23 February 2024. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024. ↩

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Chief Minister

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Lok Sabha and Speaker

National Legislator Conference

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