Chandrakant Bacchu Patil is an Indian politician and the Higher and technical education minister of

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in the present

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. Patil was the Maharashtra state President of

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from 2019 to 2022. He is a member of the legislative assembly of Maharashtra and represents

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. Previously he was minister with portfolio of Revenue and Public Works Department and worked as the ''Guardian Minister'' of

Kolhapur district Kolhapur district (Marathi pronunciation: olʱaːpuɾ is a district in the Maharashtra state of India. The city of Kolhapur is its district headquarter. It is situated near Panchaganga river. It is bordered by the Sangli district to the Nor ...

Sangli district Sangli district (Marathi pronunciation: aːŋɡli is a district of Maharashtra state in India. Sangli city is the district headquarters. It is bordered by Satara district, Solapur district to the North, Karnataka state to South-East, by Kolh ...

and

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till 12 November 2019.

Early life and education

Patil was born on 10 June 1959 in the ''Jamnadas Prabhudas Chawl'' in Parel,

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. His father, Bacchu Patil, used to serve tea to mill workers. He completed schooling from the ''Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya'' (formerly King George High School) in

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. He graduated from Siddharth College in

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and graduated with a B.Com degree in 1985.

Political career

He was introduced to the

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) () is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). History The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the RSS ...

at the age of 18. In 1980, he started working as a full-time activist for the ABVP. In 1982, he was appointed the 'Pradesh Mantri'. In 1985, Patil was elected as 'Kshetriya Sangathan Mantri' of the ABVP where he focused on the problems of the youth and student issues. In 1990, Dada Patil was elected as the Akhil Bharatiya Mantri of ABVP. At this time, he traveled to different districts of India to make people aware of social issues and addressed problems related to the education sector and the youth. In 2004, he joined the

and was elected as its Vice President in 2013. In June 2014, he was appointed a member of the

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. In October 2014, he was elected as Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra. He has been holding the Cabinet Minister's office since July 2016 and handling the revenue, relief & rehabilitation, and Public Works department.

References

External links

Personal website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Patil, Chandrakant Members of the Maharashtra Legislative Council State cabinet ministers of Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra 1959 births Living people People from Pune People from Karad Maharashtra MLAs 2019–2024