Speeches in the State Legislatures : 1946-62-12

Elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly from South Satara in the first General Elections in 1946.

Appointed Parliamentary Secretary in Home Department of the Bombay Government on 14 April 1946.

Second brother Ganpatrao passes away in 1947.

Elected Secretary of the M.P.C.C. in 1948.

Re-elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1952, appointed Minister for Civil Supplies.

Signs the Nagpur Pact on 25 September 1953 along with the late Shri Bhausaheb Hiray and Shri Nanasaheb Kunte.

Establishes the Bombay Rajya Panchayat Sangh in 1954.

Inauguration of Shivaji Memorial at Pratapgad on 19 November 1957 at the hands of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

Appointed member of the All-India Congress Committee in 1958.

Undergoes surgery in March 1959; rest for 42 days.

Inaugurates the Vidarbha Sahitya Sammelan on 13 February 1960 at Savargaon Dukre.

Presides over the formation of the new Maharashtra State and becomes its first Chief Minister on 1 May 1960.

Public felicitation at Pune on behalf of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee on 21 October 1960.

Appointed member of the All-India Congress Election Council in November 1960.

Consents to the holding of one session of Maharashtra Legislature every year at Nagpur as part of the implementation of the provisions of the Nagpur Agreement (first session was held from 10 November 1960).

Establishment of Maharashtra Rajya Sahitya Sanskriti Mandal. Inauguration at Nagpur on 21 December 1960.

Inauguration of Shivaji statue at Bombay, December 1960.

Elected to the All-India Congress Committee from the Congress High Command in 1961.

Establishment of Maharashtra Rajya Sahitya Sanskriti Mandal. Inauguration at Nagpur on 21 December 1960.

Inauguration of Shivaji statue at Bombay, December 1960.

Elected to the All-India Congress Committee from the Congress High Command in 1961.

Chairman of the Reception Committee of the Forty-third Marathi Natya Sammelan held at Delhi in 1961.

Launches the Panchayat Raj Scheme on 1 May 1962.

First article in Marathi entitled ‘Niyaticha Hat’ (The Hand of Fate) published in the Diwali special issue of Kesari.