Sunil Tatkare is an Indian Politician currently serving as

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from Raigad. He was formerly served as the Member of Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra from

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as Minister of Water Resources, Maharashtra. He formerly also served as the leader of

Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the largest opposition party in Maharashtra and is also a significant party ...

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. Tatkare has been alleged to have been associated in number of cases due to which the Anti-Corruption Bureau has sought the state government's nord to launch an "open inquiry" against him over allegations of land grab and disproportionate assets. Enforcement Directorate had started probe against him in assets case. He was born in Sutarwadi

Kolad Kolad is a village in Raigad district, Maharashtra State, India. It is 117 km from Mumbai on the National Highway no 66(Mumbai-Goa) its also connected Pune via kolad Pune- kolad state highaway . It lies on the banks of River Kundalika. ...

on 10 July 1955 and studied up to Inter science from Ferguson college in

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. He worked as government road contractor before joining

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in 1984. In 1995 he became MLA on congress party's ticket . During a program in shrivardhan 2014-03-17 01-10

He was made Minister of Food and Civil Supplies in 2004. In 2008, he was appointed Energy minister and in 2009 Finance Minister. His daughter

Aditi Sunil Tatkare Aditi Sunil Tatkare is an Indian politician belonging to Nationalist Congress Party, who she was State Minister of Maharashtra By Thakarey Government 2019 - 2022. She is from Roha and She was elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative A ...

is a member of the

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