Chandrakant Baliram Sonawane is a member of the 13th
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
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 ...
. He represents the
Chopda
''Chopda'' is a city and municipal council in the Jalgaon district in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Geography
Chopda is a town and one of the Tehsils constituting 111 villages in the Jalgaon district in Maharashtra, a state in the western ...
Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...
party.
Personal life
Political career
He is convicted by
Dhule District Court for
Jalgaon housing scam of 1996.
Positions held
* 2013: Elected as Corporator in Jalgaon Municipal Corporation
* 2014: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
* 2015: Elected as Director of Jalgaon District Central Co-operative Bank
See also
*
Raver Lok Sabha constituency
Raver Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. Raver, Maharashtra, This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementat ...
*
Jalgaon Lok Sabha constituency
References
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Maharashtra MLAs 2014–2019
Living people
Shiv Sena politicians
Marathi politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)