Haribhau Kisanrao Bagade (born 17 August 1945) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra state. He was the Speaker of

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 me ...

in 2014, and he is a leader of

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 Mod ...

. Haribhau Bagade was born in a

Maratha The Marathi people ( Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as ...

family in Phulambri town of Aurangabad district. He was first elected to Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha in 1985 from Aurangabad East seat. He won 2014 MLA election against Kalyan Kale of Indian National Congress (INC) from Phulambri constituency, and went on to win the 2019 assembly election as well from the same constituency. When BJP installed its first government in Maharashtra in 2014, he was appointed Speaker of

. He is a former cabinet minister in Government of Maharashtra.

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