Anandrao Vithoba Adsul (born 1 June 1947) was a member of the

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. He represented the

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constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party. He had represented the

constituency in

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and

Buldhana Buldhana is the district headquarters and a Municipal Council in the Buldhana District of Amravati division in the Indian State of Maharashtra. Climate Demographics As of the 2011 India census, Buldhana had a population of 67,431. Males con ...

constituency of Maharashtra in the

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and

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. He has been honored with Sansad Ratna Award in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In July 2022, he resigned from Shiv Sena as a leader of the party.

Career

He served as a

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(

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) from Amravati (Lok Sabha constituency) till 2019. He served as the Union Minister of State for Finance in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet till 2004. He was the chairperson of two corporations from 1995 to 1999 in the Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra. Adsul contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a Shiv Sena candidate, and he lost the election by 30,000 votes to

Navneet Kaur Rana Navneet Kaur Rana (also known as Navneet Ravi Rana) is a former Indian actress who mainly acted in Telugu cinema. She is an elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Amravati in 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate. Film career ...

, a former

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actress who contested the election as an independent candidate. In October 2021, his name surfaced in the news in connection with an alleged ₹980-crore fraud at City Co-operative Bank, which is being investigated by the

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(ED).

Positions held

* 1996: Elected to 11th Lok Sabha (1st term) * 1999: Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (2nd term) * Oct. 1999-Jul. 2002: Chief Whip, Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha. * 1999–2002: Member, Committee on Human Resource Development. * 2000–2002: Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism. * 2000-Mar. 2002: Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways. * Jul. 2002-Aug. 2002: Leader, Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party * 26 Aug. 2002 - May 2004: Union Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Company Affairs. * 2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (4th term) * 6 Aug. 2009 - Member, Committee on Public Accounts * 31 Aug. 2009 - Member, Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas * 23 Sep. 2009 - Member, Committee on Government Assurances * 5 May 2010 - Member, Committee on Public Accounts. * 2014: Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (5th term) * 1 Sep. 2014: Chairperson, Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. * 2018: Appointed Leader of Shiv Sena Party.

References

External links

Shivsena Home Page

Living people 1947 births India MPs 2009–2014 India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 1999–2004 Marathi politicians India MPs 1996–1997 People from Buldhana Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra Shiv Sena politicians India MPs 2014–2019 {{Maharashtra-SS-politician-stub