Rahul Narwekar is an Indian politician and member of the
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 ...
. He is the current 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 ...
. Narwekar was elected to the
Maharashtra Legislative Council
The Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad or Maharashtra Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India.
Location
The seat of the Vidhan Parishad is situated at the Nariman Point area of South M ...
in June 2016 as a Governor's Nominated member. Previously, he was a member of the
Shiv Sena party, but as the party denied him a ticket in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he joined the
Nationalist Congress Party
The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the largest opposition party in Maharashtra and is also a significant party ...
and unsuccessfully contested the
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...
election on the party's ticket from the
Maval constituency. Rahul is the sitting MLA from
Colaba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Colaba Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state within Mumbai City in western India. Rahul Narwekar of the BJP is currently the MLA of Colaba Constituency
Overview
Colaba ( ...
in
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...
on a
Bhartiya Janata Party
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ticket. He is Speaker of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on 3 July 2022 and he is the second one to become the youngest speaker of any state (age 44) in the country , first is Shivraj Patil chakurkar (at age 42 year )
Personal life
Rahul Narwekar is the son-in-law of senior NCP leader
Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar
Ramraje Naik is a senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party
The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the larg ...
. Rahul's father, Suresh Narwekar was a Municipal Councillor from the
Colaba area. Rahul's brother Makarand Narwekar is a second-term Municipal Councillor, currently from Ward No. 227. Rahul's sister-in-law Harshita Narwekar is a Municipal Councillor from Ward No. 226.
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References
Living people
Members of the Maharashtra Legislative Council
Shiv Sena politicians
Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Maharashtra
Politicians from Mumbai
1970 births
Marathi politicians
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra
Maharashtra MLAs 2019–2024
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