Shashikant Shinde

Shashikant Jayawantrao Shinde (born 19 October 1963) is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar). As of 15 July 2025, he serves as the State President of the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) in Maharashtra.

He currently serves as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, elected by MLAs in May 2020. He has previously served as a Cabinet Minister in the Prithviraj Chavan ministry, holding the Water Resources portfolio, specifically for the Krishna Valley Irrigation Corporation.

Shinde is a senior political leader from Koregaon, in Satara district, Maharashtra. He was elected multiple times to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly — from Jaoli constituency (1999–2009) and later from Koregaon (2009–2019).

In June 2013, he was inducted into the state cabinet as Minister of Water Resources under Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.

He was elected as MLA from Koregaon in the 2009 and 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, representing the NCP.

In November 2019, he was appointed as Vice-President of the NCP's Maharashtra unit.