Sada Sarvankar is an Indian politician and

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena (IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a Right-wing politics, right-wing to Far-right politics, far-right Marathi people, Marathi Regionalism (politics), regionalist and Hindu nationalism, Hindu ultranationalist political party in India f ...

leader from

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, Mumbai. He is a member of the 13th

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 mem ...

. He represents the

Mahim Mahim (Marathi pronunciation: aːɦiːm(Marathi: माहिम) is a neighbourhood in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The Mahim Junction railway station on the Western Railway and Harbour Railway of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network is the ...

Assembly Constituency. He had been elected to Vidhan Sabha for three terms in 2004, 2014 and 2019. Before that he served as Corporator in Brighanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for three terms from 1992 to 2004 till he was asked to contest from Dadar Constituency in 2004.

Defection from the Shiv Sena to the Indian National Congress in 2009

Sada Sarvankar had defected from the

to the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

because he was denied a ticket by the Shiv Sena for the

2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election The 13th Assembly elections were held in Maharashtra, India on October 13, 2009. The ruling Democratic Front (Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)) contested the elections against the alliance of Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJ ...

. Sarvankar joined Congress in the presence of Narayan Rane who is claimed to have engineered Sarvankar's defection. The Congress fielded Sada Sarvankar from the

Assembly seat for the

, a move which had upset many members of the Congress in Maharashtra.

Rejoined the Shiv Sena in 2012

Sada Sarvankar returned to the Shiv Sena before the

2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election The Indian state of Maharashtra has a bicameral legislature, comprising two houses. The lower house, known as the Legislative Assembly ("Vidhan Sabha" in Marathi), is directly elected by the people and is the more powerful of the two houses. Th ...

, contested and won in Mahim Assembly constituency.

Positions held

* 1992: Elected as Corporator in Brighanmumbai Municipal Corporation (1st term) * 1997: Re-elected as Corporator in Brighanmumbai Municipal Corporation (2nd term) * 2002: Re-elected as Corporator in Brighanmumbai Municipal Corporation (3rd term) * 2002-04: Standing Committee Chairman * 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2014: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2019: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

References

External links

Shiv Sena official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarvankar, Sada Living people Maharashtra MLAs 2004–2009 Maharashtra MLAs 2014–2019 Shiv Sena politicians Marathi politicians Year of birth missing (living people)