Anandrao Vithoba Adsul (born 1 June 1947) was a member of the

16th Lok Sabha Members of the 16th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2014 Indian general election. The elections were conducted in 9 phases from 7 April 2014 to 12 May 2014 by the Election Commission of India. The results of the election were declared on 16 May ...

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. He represented the

Amravati Amravati (/Marathi phonology, əmᵊɾɑʋᵊt̪iː/) is a city in Maharashtra located in the Vidarbha region. It is the ninth largest city in Maharashtra, India & second largest city in the Vidarbha region in terms of population. It is the ...

constituency of

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and is a member of the

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena (1966–2022) (; ; SS) was a right-wing Marathi regionalist Hindutva-based political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, who was later succeeded by Uddhav Thackeray. The party is split into two parties: the Uddha ...

(SS) political party. He had represented the

constituency in

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 previous 14t ...

and

Buldhana Buldhana (Marathi pronunciation: ) is a city and a Municipal Council in the Indian state of Maharashtra, established on 17 February 1893. It is the administrative headquarters of Buldhana District in the Amravati Division. Buldhana is the secon ...

constituency of

in the

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13th Lok Sabha The 13th Lok Sabha (20 October 1999 – 6 February 2004) is the thirteenth session of the Lok Sabha (House of the People, or lower house in the Parliament of India). It was convened after 1999 Indian general election held during September–Oct ...

and

11th Lok Sabha The 11th Lok Sabha was constituted after April–May 1996 general elections. The result of the election was a hung parliament, which would see three Prime Ministers in two years and force the country back to the polls in 1998. Atal Bihari Vajpa ...

. He has been honored with Sansad Ratna Award in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In July 2022, he resigned from

as a leader of the party.

Career

He served as a Member of Parliament of

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from

till 2019. He served as the Union Minister of State for Finance in Prime Minister

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian poet, writer and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 ...

's cabinet till 2004. He was the chairperson of two corporations from 1995 to 1999 in the Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra. Adsul contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a Shiv Sena candidate, and he lost the election by 30,000 votes to

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, a former

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actress who contested the election as an independent candidate. In October 2021, his name surfaced in the news in connection with an alleged ₹980-crore fraud at City Co-operative Bank, which is being investigated by the

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(ED).

Positions held

* 1996: Elected to 11th Lok Sabha (1st term) * 1999: Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (2nd term) * Oct. 1999-Jul. 2002: Chief Whip, Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha. * 1999–2002: Member, Committee on Human Resource Development. * 2000–2002: Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism. * 2000-Mar. 2002: Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways. * Jul. 2002-Aug. 2002: Leader, Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party * 26 Aug. 2002 - May 2004: Union Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Company Affairs. * 2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (4th term) * 6 Aug. 2009 - Member, Committee on Public Accounts * 31 Aug. 2009 - Member, Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas * 23 Sep. 2009 - Member, Committee on Government Assurances * 5 May 2010 - Member, Committee on Public Accounts. * 2014: Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (5th term) * 1 Sep. 2014: Chairperson, Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers. * 2018: Appointed Leader of

Party. 16th September 2024 appointed as chairman of Maharashtra Sc St Commission.

References

External links

Shivsena Home Page

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adsul, Anandrao Vithoba Living people 1947 births India MPs 2009–2014 India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 1999–2004 Marathi politicians India MPs 1996–1997 People from Buldhana Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra Shiv Sena politicians India MPs 2014–2019