Dilip Dattatray Walse (born 30 October 1956) is an Indian politician, from Ambegaon,

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, and a eight -time Member of the

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from

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(NCP). He is a minister in the

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, since July 2023. He previously served as the Minister of Home Affairs in the

. He formerly headed the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Energy Ministry, Higher and Technical Education Ministry, and Medical Education Ministry, all as a Cabinet Minister from 1999 to 2009. He also serves as the President of National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Limited (NFCSF). He became Maharashtra's Home Minister on 5 April 2021, succeeding

Anil Deshmukh Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh (born 9 May 1950) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is a senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar). Deshmukh served as the Uddhav Thackeray ministry, Minister for Home ...

who resigned due to graft charges.

Career

Walse-Patil is a member of the

, and was known to be a close associate of the then party President

Sharad Pawar Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar (, pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, �əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. Pawar served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for four terms and in the Union Council of Ministers ...

. Walse-Patil earlier served in the

as a minister with different portfolios such as Finance and Planning, Energy, Higher and Technical Education, and Medical Education. Walse-Patil comes from a political family. He started his political career as a PA to

, former

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. He defeated Kisanrao Bankhele in Ambegaon in 1990 to become a MLA for the first time. At present he is still representing the same constituency for eighth consecutive term. Apart from the energy portfolio, Walse Patil also held the education portfolio in the Maharashtra cabinet. Changes to make the admission procedure for medical seats more transparent were made during his tenure. He also encouraged the setup of new engineering colleges by easing the approval process.

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(MKCL) is his creation, which has more than 5000 MSCIT centers all over Maharashtra. He played a key role in the establishment of Government College of Engineering as well as Polytechnic and engineering in 2009 at Avsari (K). He took charge of the Ministry of Home Affairs replacing

in the Thackeray ministry after the latter resigned due to graft charges, on 5 April 2021.

References

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