title: Diwakar Raote
text: # Diwakar Raote
  
  Diwakar Raote is a leader of Shiv Sena from Maharashtra. On 5 December 2014 Raote took charge as the Cabinet Minister of Transport in Maharashtra Government. He is also the guardian minister of Parbhani and Nanded Districts. Earlier he was entrusted with the responsibility of establishing the organization in Marathwada after the party's decision in 1985 to expand to whole Maharashtra. He became Mayor of Mumbai in 1991. In Narayan Rane ministry, he was a cabinet minister of Revenue, Government of Maharashtra.
  
  He belongs to the Panchkalshi, a scribal caste community of Hindu society in Maharashtra mostly found in Mumbai and the North Konkan region.
  
  ## Positions held
  
  * 1991-1992: Mayor of Mumbai
  * Leader, Shiv Sena
  * 1995-1999: Cabinet Minister Maharashtra.
  * 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council
  * 2008: Shiv Sena Party group Leader in the Maharashtra Legislative Council
  * 2010: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council
  * 2014: Cabinet Minister of Transport in Maharashtra State Government
  * 2014-2016: Guardian minister of Parbhani and Nanded
  * 2016: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council
  * 2017: Guardian minister of Osmanabad
  