1. Manohar Gajanan Joshi 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.
16 Facts About Manohar Joshi
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Manohar Joshi was one of the prominent leaders of the Shiv Sena, and one of the Indians to be elected to all of the four legislatures.
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Manohar Joshi was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, by the Government of India in 2025.
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Manohar Joshi received his Masters of Arts and LLB degrees from Mumbai University.
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Manohar Joshi married Anagha Joshi on 14 May 1964, with whom he had a son, Unmesh, and two daughters, Asmita and Namrata.
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Manohar Joshi began his career by being elected as a municipal councillor in Bombay Municipal Corporation in 1968 from the Shiv Sena.
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In 1972 Manohar Joshi was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Council, where he served three terms until 1989.
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Manohar Joshi became the Mayor of Mumbai during 1976 to 1977.
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Manohar Joshi was elected to the Legislative Assembly from a Shiv Sena ticket in 1990.
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Manohar Joshi became the first non-Congress Chief Minister of Maharashtra when the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition came to power in 1995.
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Manohar Joshi was promoted to the Lok Sabha when he won in Central Mumbai in the 1999 General Elections.
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Manohar Joshi was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004 during the National Democratic Alliance administration.
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Manohar Joshi was elected for a six-year term to the Rajya Sabha on 20 March 2006 after being defeated in the previous Lok Sabha election in the Central Mumbai constituency.
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In September 2022, Manohar Joshi was appointed a key patron of NLC Bharat.
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Manohar Joshi died in Mumbai on 23 February 2024, at the age of 86.
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Manohar Joshi 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.