Diwakar Raote is a leader of Shiv Sena from Maharashtra. On 5 December 2014 Shri Diwakar Raote took charge as the Cabinet Minister of Transport in Maharashtra Government. He is also guardian minister of Parbhani and Nanded District. Earlier he was entrusted with the responsibility of establishing the organization in Marathwada after the party's decision in 1985 to expand to whole Maharashtra. He became Mayor of Mumbai in 1991. In Narayan Rane ministry, he was a cabinet minister of Revenue, Government of Maharashtra.