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'''Jiva Pandu Gavit''' is an Indian politician from the state of [[Maharashtra]]. CPI(M) Leader Gavit is the seven term member of the [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]] representing [[Surgana]] and Kalwan constituencies. Jiva Pandu Gavit was elected the Pro-tem Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2014.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/maharashtra-session-begins-sena-says-no-talks-on-with-bjp/article6583076.ece | title=Jeeva Pandu Gavit, a seven-term member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, has been sworn in as Pro-tem Speaker of the Legislative Assembly | work=thehindubusinessline.com | accessdate=15 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CPI-M-MLA-sworn-in-as-pro-tem-speaker-of-Maharashtra-assembly/articleshow/45097811.cms | title=CPI (M) MLA sworn in as pro tem speaker of Maharashtra assembly | work=timesofindia.indiatimes.com | accessdate=15 April 2016}}</ref> Gavit belongs to the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] and is the only leftist member of the [[2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election|13th Legislative Assembly]] in Maharashtra.<ref name=dna>{{cite web | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-comrade-jiva-pandu-gavit-hoists-the-red-flag-seventh-time-in-maharashtra-2028250 | title=Comrade Jiva Pandu Gavit hoists the red flag seventh time in Maharashtra | work=dnaindia.com | accessdate=15 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/tribal-couple-villagers-feel-pride-moment-in-presence-of-rss-chief/811575 | title=communist dominated area. J P Gavit, the local MLA, is the senior-most MLA in the current assembly | work=freepressjournal.in | accessdate=15 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-maharashtra-opposition-does-its-daily-walkout-this-time-over-harsul-riots-2105586 | title=CPM MLA Jiva Pandu Gavit, while raising the issue through Point of Propriety, said communal tension | work=dnaindia.com | accessdate=15 April 2016}}</ref>

==Political career==
Gavit started his political career as a farmers rights advocate and became a member of the [[All India Kisan Sabha|Kisan Sabha]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/farmer-agitation-in-nashik-nothing-concrete-on-loan-waiver-but-cm-likely-to-take-it-up-with-centre/ | title=Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA Jiva Pandu Gavit, a member of the delegation, said they requested the chief minister to ask for Central assistance for a farm loan waiver. | work=indianexpress.com | accessdate=15 April 2016}}</ref> A staunch Communist Gavit was first elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Surgana constituency in 1978 on a Communist Party of India (Marxist) ticket and narrowly beat his opponent Chavan Harichandra Deoram by four hundred votes.<ref name=traceall>{{cite web | url=http://elections.traceall.in/vidhan-sabha-assembly-election-results/Surgana-in-Maharashtra | title=Election Results in Surgana, Maharashtra | publisher=elections.traceall.in | accessdate=31 August 2017}}</ref> In the next assembly election of 1980 Gavit won against the [[Indian National Congress]] candidate Bhoye Sitaram Sayaji by about eighteen hundred votes.<ref name=traceall/> The following election of 1985 Gavit defeated the ruling party candidate Kahandole Zamru Manglu from the Indian national congress by more than twelve thousand votes.<ref name=traceall/> In the following 1990 assembly election a confident Gavit and by now already a three term member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly took on the Indian national congress's Bhoye Sitaram Sayaji whom he had defeated in the 1980 election, The result was the same and Gavit won by a margin of over sixteen thousand votes. This win sent him for the fourth time to the [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly|Maharashtra's lower house]].<ref name=traceall/> By the time the 1995 assembly election happened, Gavit was facing a seventeen-year anti-incumbency and lost to an [[Independent politician|independent candidate]] [[Harischandra Devram Chavan]] by a huge margin of about twenty-seven thousand votes.<ref name=traceall/>
In the following 1999 and 2004 Maharashtra assembly election Gavit held the seat both times defeating Harischandra Devram Chavan who had by now joined [[Sharad Pawar]]'s [[Nationalist Congress Party]] by eleven thousand votes and defeating Bhaskar Gopal of the [[Shiv Sena]] by fourteen thousand votes respectedly.<ref name=traceall/> In 2009 due to delimitation by the [[Election Commission of India]] Gavit had to change his assembly constituency and left his safe seat of Surgana to fight from a newly formed constituency called [[Kalwan]] where he took on eight term assembly member and sitting minister of the government Arjun Tulshiram Pawar, Gavit lost to Pawar of the [[Nationalist Congress Party]] by more than sixteen thousand votes.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/8-time-mla-ex-minister-a-t-pawar-passes-away/articleshow/58617223.cms | title=8-time MLA, ex-minister A T Pawar | publisher=timesofindia.indiatimes.com | accessdate=31 August 2017}}</ref> The 2014 elections were a referendum for the ruling Congress and the Nationalist Congress as there was a fifteen-year anti-incumbency and Gavit defeated Arjun Tulshiram Pawar by a slender margin of about four thousand votes.<ref name=dna/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://elections.traceall.in/vidhan-sabha-assembly-election-results/Kalwan-in-Maharashtra | title=Election Results in Kalwan, Maharashtra | publisher=elections.traceall.in | accessdate=31 August 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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