Sujay Vikhe Patil is an Indian politician and was a member of the 17th Lok Sabha, representing
Ahmednagar constituency,
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
. He is a member of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...
. He contested his first election of his political career in 2019 of
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is Bicameralism, bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by a ...
and he was elected by huge voting margin of 2,81,526 votes against NCP candidate. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he was defeated by
Nilesh Lanke of
NCP-Sharad Pawar.
Like a large number of politicians in Maharashtra and in India, Vikhe Patil also belongs to a
political dynasty
A political family (also referred to as political dynasty) is a family in which multiple members are involved in politics — particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage; often several generations or multiple sibl ...
. He is the grandson of veteran politician and seven-time
Member of Parliament, former Union
Minister of State (Finance), and Union Cabinet Minister (Heavy Industries) Govt. of India,
Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
Eknathrao alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil (10 April 1932 – 30 December 2016) was an Indian politician and former Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises & Minister of state of Finance in Government of India. He served as a Member o ...
.
References
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Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
Eknathrao alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil (10 April 1932 – 30 December 2016) was an Indian politician and former Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises & Minister of state of Finance in Government of India. He served as a Member o ...
Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil is an Indian politician in his eighth consecutive term as MLA from Shirdi Vidhan Sabha Constituency in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. He is currently the Minister for Revenue, in the Government of Maharashtra ...
India MPs 2019–2024
Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra
Living people
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Ahmednagar
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