Ramrao Adik

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Ramrao Adik and Govindrao Adik were/are both powerful and influential Maratha leaders of Maharashtra belonging to the Nationalist Congress Party. Ramrao Adik was a former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He died on August 30, 2007 in Mumbai following a brief illness. His younger brother, Govindrao Adik, was a Sharad Pawar loyalist but now is, too in the Congress Party commands substantial mass support in rural Maharashtra. He was a former Law and Agriculture Minister during which he gave rise to many dams and irrigation projects in the region.

Born in Srirampur, a small village in Nagar District of Maharashtra on 24 December 1929 Ramrao Adik started out as a farmer just like his father Wamanrao Adik. In a household of five siblings, Ramrao was the eldest and the most ambitious. He finished his law degree at Puna Law College in 1954 and went to England to become a barrister. Later on he practiced civil law in Bombay High Court, where he quickly rose through the ranks as a lawyer and was elected to the Bombay Bar Association. Since then his name was quite famous among political circles of Maharashtra.

After getting appreciated as a skillful lawyer by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, he was asked to join politics. Ramrao Adik saw this as a good platform to serve the people which he always wanted to do.

First starting out as an Advocate General, then a M.L.C., Law Minister, in a few years he would become the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra in 1984. Govindrao Adik had started out with his then schoolmate Sharad Pawar and was making headways in Maharashtra's political sphere. Govindrao Adik, also a lawyer by profession, followed his brothers' footsteps and gave up practise to join active politics. He, unlike his elder brother, is a grass-roots politician who enjoys wide mass support in rural Maharashtra. He later parted ways with Sharad Pawar and joined the Congress party.

Ramrao Adik has an interest in the field of education with a university in his name. He is now an active lawyer. “Being a Lawyer is what I love when I am not a politician” is what he says. Govindrao Adik is a M.L.C. and also is actively working for the people of the region. He is now the top contender for the top job in Maharashtra.