Vilas Muttemwar

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Vilas Bhaurao Muttemwar (born 22 March 1949) is an Indian politician from

He served as the Minister of State in the Department of Rural Areas and Employment,

Vilas Muttemwar was elected as a member of the 7th Lok Sabha from the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency on Indian National Congress ticket in 1980. He served as a Secretary of the Indian Youth Congress between 1980 and 1981. In the 1984 general election, he was re-elected to office. During this period, he also served as Joint Secretary of the Indian National Congress from 1985 till 1988.

In the

He was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998 and subsequently to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999, the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 and the 15th Lok Sabha in 2009. During the 12th Lok Sabha, he served as a member of the Committee on Energy, Committee on Public Undertakings and the Committee on Private Members' Bill and Resolutions. In the 13th Lok Sabha, he was a member of the Standing Committee on Transport and Tourism, Consultative Committees of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Finance. He also served as the Secretary of the Congress Parliamentary Party for a second term between 2003 and 2005.

Upon his re-election in 2004 and the victory of the Congress-led

In the 15th Lok Sabha, he was the Chairman of the Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution; and Member of the General Purposes Committee, India-Bangladesh Parliamentary Friendship Committee and the House Committee. He contested the 2014 election to the 16th Lok Sabha from Nagpur constituency against Bharatiya Janata Party-candidate Nitin Gadkari and was defeated by 2,84,848 votes.

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