Rohit Rajendra Pawar is a
member
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of
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
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from the
Karjat-Jamkhed constituency in
Maharashtra
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,
India
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.
He belongs to the politically influential
Pawar family
Early life and family
Rohit Pawar was born to Rajendra Pawar and
Sunanda Pawar in
Baramati
Baramati ( aːɾamət̪iː is a city, a tehsil and a municipal council in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India. The city is about 100 KM (62 miles) southeast of the city of Pune and about 250 KM from Mumbai.
Baramati is located ...
,
Maharashtra
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on 29 September 1985.
He is the grandson of
Appasaheb Pawar and also the grandnephew of prominent Indian political leader and former union agriculture minister of India-
Sharad Pawar
Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minist ...
. He completed his schooling from Vidya Prathisthan, Baramati. He graduated in "Bachelor of Management" studies from
University of Mumbai
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in the year 2007. Rohit Pawar is married to Kunti Pawar (née Magar).The couple has two children.
Business career
He is the CEO of Baramati Agro Ltd. He served as the President of the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) from September 2018 to 2019.
Political career
Pawar contested and won the Zilla Parishad elections from Shirsuphal - Gunawadi constituency in Baramati taluka, Pune in 2017.
During the 2019 Indian General Elections, he campaigned for the Nationalist Congress Party.
In
October 2019 he was elected to
Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha
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 ...
from the
Karjat-Jamkhed constituency with 135824 votes. He is from the forth generation of the Pawar family to hold public office.
See also
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Sharad Pawar
Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minist ...
*
Supriya Sule
Supriya Sule (; born 30 June 1969) is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha representing Baramati. She previously served as an MP in the 15th and 16th Lok Sabha ...
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Ajit Pawar
Ajit Anantrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: d͡ʒit̪ pəʋaːɾ born 22 July 1959) is an Indian politician. He is the Leader of the Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, and was the 8th Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra in his ...
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Sunanda Pawar
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Living people
People from Baramati
1985 births
Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Maharashtra
Maharashtra politicians
Marathi people
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