Chandrakant Patil
OfficeMinister of Higher and Technical Education
Government of Maharashtra
Term start9 August 2022
1blanknameChief Minister
1namedataEknath Shinde
Devendra Fadnavis
PredecessorUday Samant
Office 1Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Government of Maharashtra
Term start 19 August 2022
1blankname 1Chief Minister
1namedata 1Eknath Shinde
Devendra Fadnavis
Predecessor 1Anil Parab
Office 2Minister of Textiles
Government of Maharashtra
Term start 29 August 2022
Term end 226 November 2024
1blankname 2Chief Minister
1namedata 2Eknath Shinde
Predecessor 2Aslam Shaikh
Successor 2Sanjay Savkare
Term start 331 October 2014
Term end 38 July 2016
1blankname 3Chief Minister
1namedata 3Eknath Shinde
Predecessor 3Naseem Khan
Successor 3Subhash Deshmukh
Office 4Minister of Agriculture
Government of Maharashtra
Term start 41 June 2018
Term end 416 June 2019
1blankname 4Chief Minister
1namedata 4Devendra Fadnavis
Predecessor 4Pandurang Fundkar
Successor 4Anil Bonde
Office 5Minister of Revenue
Government of Maharashtra
Term start 58 July 2016
Term end 512 November 2019
1blankname 5Chief Minister
1namedata 5Devendra Fadnavis
Predecessor 5Eknath Khadse
Successor 5Balasaheb Thorat
Office 6Minister of Co-operation
Government of Maharashtra
Term start 631 October 2014
Term end 68 July 2016
1blankname 6Chief Minister
1namedata 6Devendra Fadnavis
Predecessor 6Harshvardhan Patil
Successor 6Subhash Deshmukh
Office 7Minister of Public Works Department
Government of Maharashtra
Term start 731 October 2014
Term end 712 November 2019
1blankname 7Chief Minister
1namedata 7Devendra Fadnavis
Predecessor 7Chhagan Bhujbal
Successor 7Ashok Chavan
Office 9President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra
Term start 916 July 2019
Term end 912 August 2022
Predecessor 9Raosaheb Danve
Successor 9Chandrashekhar Bawankule
Office 10Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Term start 102019
Predecessor 10Medha Kulkarni
Constituency 10Kothrud
Office 11Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council
Term start 1120 July 2008
Term end 1125 October 2019
Predecessor 11Sharad Patil
Successor 11Arun Lad
Constituency 11Pune Graduates
Birth date10 June 1959 (age 67)
Birth placeBombay, Bombay State, India
Alma materSiddharth College
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Websitechandrakantdadapatil.in

Chandrakant Bacchu Patil is an Indian politician and the Higher and technical education minister of Maharashtra state in the present Government of Maharashtra.[1] Chandrakant Patil was the Maharashtra state President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2019 to 2022.[2]

He is a member of the legislative assembly of Maharashtra and represents the Kothrud Assembly constituency. Previously, he was a minister with portfolio of Revenue and Public Works Department and worked as the Guardian Minister of Kolhapur district, Sangli district and Pune district till 12 November 2019.[citation needed]

Early life and education

Patil was born on 10 June 1959 in the Jamnadas Prabhudas Chawl in Parel, Mumbai. His father, Bacchu Patil, used to serve tea to mill workers. He completed schooling at Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya (formerly King George High School) in Dadar. He graduated from Siddharth College in Fort and graduated with a B.Com degree in 1980.[3][4]

Political career

He was introduced to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad at the age of 18. In 1980, he started working as a full-time activist for the ABVP. In 1982, he was appointed the 'Pradesh Mantri'. In 1985, Patil was elected as 'Kshetriya Sangathan Mantri' of the ABVP where he focused on the problems of the youth and student issues. In 1990, Dada Patil was elected as the Akhil Bharatiya Mantri of ABVP. At this time, he traveled to different districts of India to make people aware of social issues and addressed problems related to the education sector and the youth. In 2004, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected as its Vice President in 2013. In June 2014, he was appointed a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. In October 2014, he was elected as Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra. He has been holding the Cabinet Minister's office since July 2016 and handling the revenue, relief & rehabilitation, and Public Works department.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

References

  1. ^ "Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil...". The Hindu. 20 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Ahead of Maharashtra elections, BJP appoints minister Chandrakant Patil new state chief". India Today. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  3. ^ "About Chandrakant Patil". Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Row over MU giving degree certificate duplicate to minister Chandrakant Patil in 1 day". The Times of India. 14 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  5. ^ "निर्देशिका - महाराष्ट्र शासनाचे अधिकृत संकेतस्थळ, भारत". Maharashtra.gov.in. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
  6. ^ "Ministers - Maharashtra BJP". bjp.org. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Sarkaritel.com, : Maharashtra Government, Council of Ministers". www.sarkaritel.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Welcome to Collector Office Kolhapur". kolhapur.nic.in. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  9. ^ "पुण्याच्या पालकमंत्री पदी चंद्रकांत पाटलांची न". 7 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Chandrakant Patil likely to replace Girish Bapat as next guardian minister of Pune". indianexpress.com. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  11. ^ Hindustantimes (23 November 2024). "Maharashtra election results: These candidates have won by biggest margins so far". Archived 24 November 2024 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  12. ^ CNBCTV18 (23 November 2024). "Maharashtra Elections 2024: 14 candidates win by over 1 lakh votes, all from Mahayuti". Archived 4 December 2024 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  13. ^ The Hindu, Sruthi (23 November 2024). "Maharashtra Assembly election results 2024 | Who won in Pune?" (in en-IN). Archived 24 November 2024 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 December 2024.