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{{Short description|Indian politician (1941–2024)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox politician
| name = Madhukar Kashinath Pichad
| office = Member of the [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]]
| native_name = {{nobold|मधुकर काशिनाथ पिचड}}
| native_name_lang = mr
| country = {{flag|India}}
| successor = [[Vaibhav Madhukar Pichad]]
| term_start = 1980
| term_end = 2014
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|6|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Akole]], [[Ahmednagar district]], [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay Province]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|12|6|1941|6|1|df=y}}
| death_place =
| citizenship =
| other_party =
* [[Indian National Congress]] (till 1999)
* [[Nationalist Congress Party]] (till 2019)
| partner =
| children = 3 (including [[Vaibhav Madhukar Pichad]])
| parents = Kashinath Bhikaji Pichad
| occupation = Politician
| nickname = Pichad Bhau
| constituency = [[Akole Assembly constituency|Akole]]
| predecessor = Yashwant S. Bhangare
| office1 = 15th [[List of Leader of the Opposition of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly|Leader of Opposition<br/>Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start1 = 25 March 1995
| term_end1 = 15 July 1999
| predecessor1 = [[Gopinath Munde]]
| successor1 = [[Narayan Rane]]
| image = Madhukar Pichad Akole.jpg
}}

'''Madhukar Kashinath Pichad''' (1 June 1941 – 6 December 2024) was an Indian politician, social worker and cabinet minister in [[Government of Maharashtra]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mumbai News: Sharad Pawar Blames Eknath Shinde's Govt For Jalna Lathi Charge |url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-news-sharad-pawar-blames-eknath-shindes-govt-for-jalna-lathi-charge |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Free Press Journal |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-07-28 |title=Vaibhav Pichad confirms his entry in BJP |url=https://www.asianage.com/metros/mumbai/280719/vaibhav-pichad-confirms-his-entry-in-bjp.html |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=The Asian Age}}</ref> He served as the Member of the [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Akole Assembly constituency]] from 1980 to 2009. He was leader of opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from March 1995 to July 1999.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pandit |first=Vivek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xObZAAAAMAAJ |title=Fearless Minds: Rights Based Approach to Organizing and Advocacy |date=2000 |publisher=National Centre for Advocacy Studies |pages=227 |language=en}}</ref>

Pichad was a member of [[Nationalist Congress Party]] since the inception of his political career but in 2019 he joined [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] along with his son [[Vaibhav Madhukar Pichad|Vaibhav Pichad]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 July 2019 |title=NCP, Congress leaders including Sandeep Naik, Chitra Wagh, Vaibhav Pichad, Madhukar Pichad join BJP |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/ncp-congress-leaders-including-sandeep-naik-chitra-wagh-vaibhav-pichad-madhukar-pichad-join-bjp/articleshow/70461559.cms |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Mumbai Mirror |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ahmednagar: Veteran BJP leader Madhukar Pichad, son Vaibhav lose in Agasthi sugar factory election |url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/ahmednagar-veteran-bjp-leader-madhukar-pichad-son-vaibhav-lose-in-agasthi-sugar-factory-election |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Free Press Journal |language=en}}</ref> He served as the President of Nationalist Congress Party Maharashtra.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-07-28 |title=NCP MLA Vaibhav Pichad to join BJP |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/ncp-mla-vaibhav-pichad-to-join-bjp-pawar-says-not-worried-about-defections/story-zwQz6oD3ESpldhKiK1ilZN.html |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref>

He founded Amrutsagar Milk Co-operative Akole in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web |title='अमृतसागर' पिचड यांचाच |url=https://marathi.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/ahmednagar-news/vaibhav-pichad/articleshow/47333893.cms |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Maharashtra Times |language=mr}}</ref> He was founding president of Agasti Sahakari Sugar Factory, the first cooperative sugar factory in India, founded in 1993.<ref>{{Cite web |title=साखर उताऱ्यात 'अगस्ती' प्रथम |url=https://marathi.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/ahmednagar-news/agasthi-sugar-mill-is-no-1/articleshow/56406999.cms |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Maharashtra Times |language=mr}}</ref>

== Life and career ==
Pichad was born on 1 June 1941 into a Tribal family of [[Koli people|Mahadeo Koli]] to Kashinath Pichad, a Teacher and Kamalbai Kashinath Pichad, a housewife at [[Rajur]], [[Ahmednagar district]], Maharashtra.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marathi |first=TV9 |date=2019-07-27 |title=आघाडीची सत्ता पुन्हा येणार नाही, जनतेसाठी भाजपात जातोय : वैभव पिचड |url=https://www.tv9marathi.com/politics/ncp-mla-vaibhav-pichad-and-his-father-madhukar-pichad-to-join-bjp-93862.html |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=TV9 Marathi |language=mr}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=ब्युरो |first=सरकारनामा |date=2017-06-01 |title=आजचे वाढदिवस, मधुकरराव पिचड,शिवाजीराव कर्डिले |url=https://sarkarnama.esakal.com/vishleshan/mla-birthaday-12266 |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=Politics News on Sarkarnama |language=mr}}</ref>

He completed B. A. LLB from [[Fergusson College|Ferguson College Pune]], where he entered into the Students politics.<ref name=":0" />

Pichad started his career on being elected as the Zila Parishad Member in 1972, and as the Chairman of Panchayat Samiti Akole Taluka in 1972, serving until 1980.

Pichad died on 6 December 2024, at the age of 83.<ref>{{cite news |title=भाजपचे ज्येष्ठ नेते, माजी मंत्री मधुकर पिचड यांचे निधन:वयाच्या 84 व्या वर्षी घेतला अखेरचा श्वास, सलग 7 वेळा राहिले आमदार |url=https://divyamarathi.bhaskar.com/local/maharashtra/mumbai/news/madhukarrao-pichad-passed-away-bjp-leader-134077478.html |access-date=6 December 2024 |publisher=divyamarathi.bhaskar.com |date=6 December 2024}}</ref>

=== Positions held ===
*Elected as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from [[Akole Assembly constituency]] in [[1980 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]] as a candidate of [[Indian National Congress (I)]] and served till 1985.
*Elected as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Akole Assembly constituency for the second consecutive term in [[1985 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]] as a candidate of [[Indian National Congress]] and served till 1990.
*Elected as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Akole Assembly constituency for the third consecutive term in [[1990 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]] as a candidate of [[Indian National Congress]] and served till 1995.
*Nominated as the Cabinet Minister for [[Ministry of Tribal Development (Maharashtra)|Ministry of Tribal Development]] on 25 June 1991 and served till 3 November 1992 in the [[Sudhakarrao Naik ministry]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZ9KAQAAIAAJ |title=Frontline |date=1992 |publisher=S. Rangarajan for Kasturi & Sons |pages=21 |language=en}}</ref>
*Nominated as the Cabinet Minister for Ministry of Tribal Development, [[Ministry of Dairy Development (Maharashtra)|Ministry of Dairy Development]], Ministry of Travel Development and Ministry of Animal, Husbandry and Fisheries on 6 March 1993 and served till 14 March 1995 in the [[Fourth Pawar ministry]].
*Elected as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Akole Assembly constituency for the fourth consecutive term in [[1995 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]] as a candidate of [[Indian National Congress]] and served till 2000.
*Nominated as the Cabinet Minister for Ministry of Tribal Development for the third term on 27 October 1999 and served till 16 January 2003 in the [[First Deshmukh ministry]].
*Elected as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Akole Assembly constituency for the fifth consecutive term in [[1999 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]] as a candidate of [[Nationalist Congress Party]] and served till 2004.
*Elected as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Akole Assembly constituency for the sixth consecutive term in [[2004 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]] as a candidate of Nationalist Congress Party and served till 2009.
*Elected as the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Akole Assembly constituency for the seventh consecutive term in [[2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election]] as a candidate of Nationalist Congress Party and served till 2014.
*Nominated as the Cabinet Minister for Ministry of Tribal Development, Ministry of Tribal Development, [[Ministry of Nomadic Tribes (Maharashtra)|Ministry of Nomadic Tribes]] and Other Backward Class Welfare on 11 June 2013 and served till 26 September 2014 in the [[Prithviraj Chavan ministry]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-06-11 |title=Madhukar Pichad, three new faces to be inducted into Maha cabinet |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/madhukar-pichad-three-new-faces-to-be-inducted-into-maha-cabinet/articleshow/20535476.cms |access-date=2024-09-18 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

== References ==
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