Chandrakant Bacchu Patil is an Indian politician and the Higher and technical education minister of

Maharashtra state Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the second-most populous state in India and the second-most populous country subdivi ...

in the present

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. Patil was the

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state President of

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from 2019 to 2022. He is a member of the

legislative assembly of Maharashtra The Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated in the Nariman Point area of South Mumbai in the capital Mumbai. Presently, 288 memb ...

and represents

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. Previously he was minister with portfolio of Revenue and

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and worked as the ''Guardian Minister'' of

Kolhapur district Kolhapur district (Marathi pronunciation: olʱaːpuɾ is a district in the Maharashtra state of India. The city of Kolhapur is its district headquarter. It is situated near Panchaganga river. It is bordered by the Sangli district to the Nor ...

Sangli district Sangli district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, aːŋɡli is a Districts of Maharashtra, district of Maharashtra state in India. Sangli city is the district headquarters. It is bordered by Satara district, Solapur district to the ...

and

Pune district Pune district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, uɳeː is the most populous district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The district's population was 9,429,408 in the 2011 census, making it the fourth most populous district amongst I ...

till 12 November 2019.

Early life and education

Patil was born on 10 June 1959 in the ''Jamnadas Prabhudas Chawl'' in

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. His father, Bacchu Patil, used to serve tea to mill workers. He completed schooling from the ''Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya'' (formerly King George High School) in

Dadar Dadar ( ̪aːd̪əɾ is a densely populated residential and shopping neighbourhood in Mumbai. It is also a prominent railway and bus service hub with local and national connectivity. Dadar holds the distinction of being Mumbai’s first planne ...

. He graduated from Siddharth College in

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and graduated with a

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degree in 1985.

Political career

He was introduced to the

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) () is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). History The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the RSS ...

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

and was elected as its Vice President in 2013. In June 2014, he was appointed a member of the

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. 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.

References

External links

Personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Patil, Chandrakant Members of the Maharashtra Legislative Council State cabinet ministers of Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra 1959 births Living people People from Pune People from Karad Maharashtra MLAs 2019–2024