In 1943, young leaders in which one of the following districts of Maharashtra set up a parallel Government (pratisarhar) with volunteer corps (seva dals) and village units (tufan dals)?
The leader of the Satara Parallel govt. was "Kratisimha" Nana Patil, who later joined the Communist party & was elected to the Lok Sabha on the CPI ticket from Satara in the year 1957 and again from Beed in the year 1967. The British rule was effectively overthrown in large parts of Satara district of the western side of Maharashtra during those three years. The Parallel govt. the movement was a guerrilla kind of struggle, and it operated in over 150 villages with solid peasant support. There were raids on taluka armouries and treasuries. The Prati Sarkar took over various of the functions of the government. The parallel govt. established several public utilities like a market system, supply and distribution of food grains and a judicial system to settle disputes and to penalise dacoits and robbers, pawnbrokers & money lenders.