Vitthal Tupe

In 1998, Tupe won the Pune Lok Sabha constituency on an Indian National Congress ticket but joined the Nationalist Congress Party after Sharad Pawar left the Indian National Congress. He first became an MLA winning from Pune Cantonment Assembly constituency on Janata Party ticket in the 1978 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He retained it in the 1980 election and won for a third time in the 1985 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election.

• Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Pune Cantonment constituency (thrice)
• Senior member of Nationalist Congress Party