Vivekanand Shankar Patil is a politician of the

Peasants and Workers Party of India The Peasants and Workers Party of India is a Marxist political party in Maharashtra, India. The party was founded on 13.06.1948, having its roots from the pre-Independence period and has around 1,00,000 members. The influence of the party is lar ...

, and the founder of the Karnala Sports Academy. Patil represented the

Panvel Panvel () is a city and taluka in Raigad district of Maharashtra, India. It is highly populated due to its closeness to Mumbai. Panvel is also governed for development purpose by the body of Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Panvel Municipal Corpora ...

constituency in the

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 ...

for three terms. Since Panvel was divided, he has represented the

Uran Uran is a coastal town and part of Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra state in Konkan division. It lies in the Raigad district, east of Mumbai across the Dharamtar Creek. Uran is primarily a fishing and agriculture village, which has developed into the ...

constituency. He ran in the 2014

Vidhan Sabha The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, or also Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in the states and union territories of India. In the 28 states and 3 union territories with a unicameral state legislature, it is the sole legislati ...

elections in Uran but received only 55,320 votes, losing to Manohar Bhoir 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 ...

party. After the election, he threatened to file a public interest lawsuit against a rival politician,

Prashant Thakur Prashant Thakur is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Early life Thakur was born in Panvel on 5 August 1974, son of Ramsheth Changu Thakur and Shakuntala Thakur. Ramsheth Thakur is a forme ...

. He has been found guilty of money laundering and arrest order is issued to arrest him by Enforcement Directorate of Government of India on 15 June 2021.

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* http://vivekpatil.in * http://www.shekappmc.org/ Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Maharashtra MLAs 2009–2014 Peasants and Workers Party of India politicians {{Maharashtra-politician-stub