Gajanan Dharmshi Babar (1 March 1943 – 2 February 2022) was an Indian politician.

Biography

He was a member of the

15th Lok Sabha Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee. Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 44 more seats than the previou ...

. He represented the

Maval (Lok Sabha constituency) Maval Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian Parliament) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the preside ...

in Pune District of

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

and was a member of 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 ...

political party. Babar was the member of Standing Committee On Urban Development from 31 August 2009 to 30 August 2011 and Standing Committee on Rural Development. He was also a member of Standing Committee on Chemical & Fertilizer and Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence, and a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language (First Sub-Committee). In January 2016, he joined

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

in the presence of Chief Minister of Maharashtra

Devendra Fadnavis Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis (Marathi pronunciation: ��ेवेंद्र फडणवीस born 22 July 1970) is an Indian politician serving as the 9th and current Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 30 June 2022. He served as ...

and Pune district guardian minister

Girish Bapat Girish Bapat (born 3 September 1950) is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Pune, Maharashtra in the 2019 Indian general election as ...

. He died from

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Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...

on 2 February 2022, at the age of 78.

External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website

References

1943 births 2022 deaths India MPs 2009–2014 Shiv Sena politicians Marathi politicians Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra People from Satara district People from Pimpri-Chinchwad Maharashtra municipal councillors Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India {{Maharashtra-BJP-politician-stub