Sunil Dattatray Tatkare is an Indian politician currently serving as

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

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

Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party is one of the List of political parties in India#State parties, state parties in India and is one of the major political parties in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra with a recognised state party statu ...

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. He has been alleged to have been associated in a 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. The

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has started a probe against him in an 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 to Pune via Kolad Pune- Kolad state highway. It lies on the banks of River Kundalika Riv ...

on 10 July 1955 and belongs to Gawli community. He studied Inter Science at

Fergusson College Fergusson College is an autonomous public-private college offering various courses in the streams of arts and science in the city of Pune, India. It was founded in 1885 by Vaman Shriram Apte, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Vishnushashtri Chiplunkar, Mah ...

Pune Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...

. He worked as a government road contractor before joining the

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in 1984. In 1995 he became MLA on the Congress Party's ticket. 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 is a member of the

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (ISO: ''Mahārāṣṭra Vidhāna Sabhā'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituenci ...

. He was also appointed State President of

Ajit Pawar on 3 July 2023 in Maharashtra.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tatkare, Sunil Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Maharashtra State cabinet ministers of Maharashtra Marathi politicians Maharashtra MLAs 2009–2014 1955 births Living people People from Raigad district United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election India MPs 2024–2029