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Savita Gopal Mali
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Posted 2 year ago Savita Gopal Mali

यशवंतराव चव्हाण

Shobha Gurmukhdas
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Posted 2 year ago Shobha Gurmukhdas

Yashwant R Chavan was the first chief minister of Maharashtra.    He was a strong Congress leader, co-operative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People. He advocated social democracy in his speeches and articles and was instrumental in establishing co-operatives in Maharashtra for the betterment of the farmers.His last significant ministerial post was as the Deputy Prime Minister of India in the short lived Charan Singh government in 1979.