Sanjay Raut a politician from Shiv Sena party is presently a Member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is also the Executive Editor of the notorious Marathi Newspaper "Samana" which is published by Bal Thackeray, the Shivsena party leader.

Shobha Rajadhyaksha, also known as Shobhaa Dé (born 7 January 1948), is an Indian columnist and novelist.

Shobha De was born in a Maharashtrian Goud Saraswat Brahmin family in Mumbai, India. She completed her schooling from Queen Mary School, Mumbai and graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with a degree in psychology.

After making her name as a model, she began a career in journalism in 1970, during the course of which she founded and edited three magazines – Stardust, Society, and Celebrity.Stardust magazine, published by Mumbai-based Magna Publishing Co. Ltd., was started by Nari Hira in 1971. and became popular under the editorship of Shobhaa De. In the 1980s, she contributed to the Sunday magazine section of The Times of India. In her columns, she used to explore the socialite life in Mumbai lifestyles of the celebrities. At present, she is a freelance writer and columnist for several newspapers and magazines.

Kirit Somaiya (born February 12, 1954) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who represented Mumbai Northeast in the 13th Lok Sabha.

Chhagan Bhujbal (Marathi: छगन भुजबळ) (born October 15, 1947) is a politician from the state of Maharashtra, India. At present he is Minister of Public Works & Special Assistance Department, (Excluding Public Undertaking) Maharashtra State and Guardian Minister, Nashik District; Member of Legislative Assembly, Yeola Assembly ; Constituency. .;.

Bhujbal started his political career with the Shiv Sena party. He left the party in 1991 and joined the Indian National Congress. Later, after the Indian National Congress leader Sharad Pawar decided to split from the Congress and form his own party, the Nationalist Congress Party, Bhujbal went along with him. Guardian Minister Nashik District.

Chagan Bhujbal is an Other Backward Class(OBC) leader and has mass base in Maharashtra. He belongs to Hindu' Mali caste community'. Chhagan Bhujbal started his political career from Shiv Sena in the 1960s. Before entering politics he was a vegetable vendor in Byculla Market where his mother was selling fruits with a small shop.After Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI,Bombay and being influenced by Shivsena philosophy and more particularly, by the die-hard personality of Shivsena Supremo Shri Balasaheb Thackeray, Bhujbal was evolved into a hard core Shiv Sainik. The ideals that he had accepted were not only deeply ingrained into Bhujbal's working style, but were also astutely practised by him. Naturally, if something was unacceptable to him in principle, he never thought twice before putting his foot down. While representing matters of public interest, he made sure that in all circumstances, all his ideas and actions put public interest and goodwill - first. This sense of strong man approach not only endeared him to the members of his 'maali' community, but the entire OBC community. While in the Shivsena, it was these qualities that won him unanimous acceptance as not only the leader of the Marathi-speaking community, but the entire Mumbai city.

Ved Pratap Vaidik (30 December 1944, Indore - ) is a scholar, political analyst and free lancer columnist of India. He had been with Press Trust of India as the founder-editor of its Hindi news agency “Bhasha”. Before that he was the Editor (views) in Nav Bharat Times. At present, he is the Chairman of Bhartiya Bhasha Sammelan.

Ved Pratap Vaidik was born on 30 December 1944 in Indore, a city of the region then known as Central Province in British India.

He has published several award-winning research publications.^{[citation needed]} His published books are:

(Note: All above books are in Hindi)

(In English).

Some of the awards received by Vaidik are: