Under his leadership from 1997 to 2004, the Indian National Congress party won all the elections for the Parliament, the State Assembly, and the Pune Municipal Corporation.
[4] Joshi was selected as a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentarian Association study-tour of Europe and the UK in 2011.
[6] For the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Joshi was the Congress candidate for Pune constituency.
[7] Since 2014, Bharatiya Janata Party ruled the Pune Lok Sabha constituency.
[8][needs update] Joshi is president of the Maharashtra branch of Harijan Sevak Sangh.