Chandrashekhar Bawankule

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Chandrashekhar K. Bawankule
The Maharashtra Energy Minister, Shri Chandrashkahr Bawankule calling on the Minister of State (IC) for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Shri Raj Kumar Singh, in New Delhi on October 16, 2017.jpg
President of
Kamthi
Personal details
Born (1969-01-13) 13 January 1969 (age 55)
Koradi, Maharashtra, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseJyoti Bawankule
ChildrenPayal Bawanklule
Sanket Bawanklule
OccupationLegislator
Websitewww.cbawankule.in

Chandrashekhar Krishnarao Bawankule is President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra[1] and Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council representing Nagpur Local Authorities [2] on 2 January 2022. He was member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly[3] & Minister for Energy, New and Renewable Energy Maharashtra,[4][5] Ministry of State Excise (Maharashtra),[6] and also appointed Nagpur Guardian Minister on 26 December 2014.[7]

A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he represented the Kamthi Assembly Constituency, being elected from there in 2004, 2009 & 2014.[8] He was made Secretary of the Bhartiya Janata Party, Maharashtra State Unit in Devendra Fadnavis' team in 2012. In a cabinet expansion, he was given charge of the state excise department on 10 July 2016.

Background and family

Chandrashekhar Bawankule was born in Kamthi into a Marathi Teli family. He is married to Jyoti Bawankule and has two children.

Early life

Bawankule was born and raised in a farming family with no political background. Koradi, located near Nagpur, is the place where he pursued his higher education in the stream of Science & completed first year.

Political career

Bawankule's career commenced in earnest in the early nineties, he started "Chhatrapati Sena" and continued its social work till 1994. Then he joined

Bhartiya Janata Party under the leadership of Gopinath Munde and Nitin Gadkari in 1995, becoming Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha a youth wing of the BJP in Maharashtra
in 1995.

In 1997 & 2002, Bawankule was elected as a District Council Member. In 2004, he was elected to the Maharashtra state assembly for the first time, from Kamthi constituency. He was reelected twice, in 2009 and 2014. Due to allegations of corruption, the BJP did not give Bawankule the ticket to contest Assembly elections in 2019. It was given to his wife Jyoti instead, but later rescinded from her as well.

Positions held

Within
BJP

  • President, Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra, Since 12 August 2022
  • BJYM
    Nagpur District (1995)
  • General Secretary
    , BJP Nagpur District
  • Bhartiya Janata Party
    , Nagpur District
  • Secretary, Maharashtra BJP State Unit (2012-2014)

Legislative

References

  1. ^ "Appointed as State President". Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Declared Member of Legislative Council". Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Live Kamthi (Maharastra) Assembly Election Results 2019 Updates, Winner, Runner-up Candidates 2019 Updates, Vidhan Sabha Current MLA and Previous MLAs".
  4. ^ Energy, New and Renewable Energy, State Excise Archived 18 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Declared: Portfolios of Maharashtra Government ministers". Mid-Day. 6 December 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  6. ^ Welcome to Maharashtra State Excise Online Services Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  7. ^ Ramu Bhagwat (27 December 2014). "Bawankule is Nagpur district guardian minister". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  8. ^ Kamthi (Maharashtra) Assembly Constituency Elections Retrieved 20 July 2018.
Political offices
Preceded by
Cabinet Minister for Energy, New and Renewable Energy;
Maharashtra State

2014–present
Incumbent
Preceded by
Maharashtra State Guardian Minister for Nagpur district
2014–present
Incumbent