Sudhir Sawant is an Indian politician. He is Honorary Brigadier (Retd.) from Territorial Army. He was actively involved in Party Politics till Late 2019, currently heading Sainik Federation and actively involved with grassroot level social activities for promotion of natural farming & implementation of concept of Abudant Village for overall growth in rural Maharashtra.
Early life
Sudhir Sawant is the son of CS Sawant who was a three term MLA in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly as a Member of
Peasants and Workers Party
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. Graduate from Defence Services Staff College, he served in the Indian army as Commando Instructor, 1982 to 84, served in J&K & Siachen & then Military Intelligence, 1988 to 91. He participated in Kargil War (Operation Parakram)
Political career
Former Indian prime minister
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to bec ...
brought Sawant into electoral politics and gave him Loksabha
ticket for
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 ...
from the
Rajapur Loksabha Constituency from the
Konkan
The Konkan ( kok, कोंकण) or Kokan () is a stretch of land by the western coast of India, running from Damaon in the north to Karwar in the south; with the Arabian Sea to the west and the Deccan plateau in the east. The hinterla ...
region of Maharashtra for the 1991 election. In the election Sawant defeated the long serving incumbent and former Union Railway Minister,
Madhu Dandavate
Madhu Dandavate (21 January 1924 – 12 November 2005) was an Indian physicist and socialist politician, who served as Minister of Railways in the Morarji Desai ministry, and as Minister of Finance in the V P Singh ministry.
Born in Ahmednag ...
.
Indian National Congress President
Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi (''née'' Maino; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest serving president of the Indian National Congress, a social democratic political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independe ...
appointed Sudhir Sawant as a national secretary of the party.
Sawant joined
Aam Aadmi Party Maharashtra unit on 12 January 2018 in presence of
Arvind Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal (Hindi: �ɾʋin̪d̪ ked͡ʒɾiːʋaːl born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician, former bureaucrat, and activist who is the 7th and current Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. Currently, he is the national co ...
and on 6 June 2018 under presence of AAP National Secretary
Pankaj Gupta he has been appointed as
Aam Aadmi Party Maharashtra Unit Head Convenor. He resigned from the post of state convenor citing differences with Arvind Kejriwal.
Career and Business interests outside politics
He is chairman of Forum for Strategic Studies, New Delhi and Tourism Co-Operative.
He is the founder Of Sindhudurg sainik school Amboli located in Amboli, Sawantwadi of Sindhudurg district of maharashtra. This is the only one school in Maharashtra which is run by Ex-servicemen. He is also the president of sainik patpedhi (bank for ex servicemen of Sindhudurg). He also established Agriculture college in Oros, Sindhudurg.
References
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
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India MPs 1991–1996
Indian National Congress politicians
Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra
1955 births
Living people
Marathi politicians
People from Sindhudurg district
People from Belgaum
Aam Aadmi Party politicians