Chandrashekhar Bawankule

Chandrashekhar Krishnarao Bawankule is President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra[1] and Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council representing Nagpur Local Authorities [2] on 2nd 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]

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 Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra
Assumed office
12 August 2022
Preceded byChandrakant Patil
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council
Assumed office
2 January 2022
Preceded byGirish Vyas
ConstituencyNagpur Local Authorities
Minister of Excise
Government of Maharashtra
In office
8 July 2016 – 8 November 2019
Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis
Preceded byEknath Khadse
Succeeded byDilip Walse-Patil
Minister of Energy
Government of Maharashtra
In office
4 December 2014 – 8 November 2019
Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis
Preceded byAjit Pawar
Succeeded byBalasaheb Thorat
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
In office
2004–2019
Preceded bySulekha Kumbhare
Succeeded byTekchand Sawarkar
ConstituencyKamthi
Personal details
Born (1969-01-13) 13 January 1969
Koradi, Maharashtra, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseJyoti Bawankule
ChildrenPayal Bawanklule
Sanket Bawanklule
OccupationLegislator
Websitewww.cbawankule.in

He represented the Kamthi Assembly Constituency and belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was his third term as Member of Legislative Assembly since 2004, 2009 & 2014. Due to baseless allegations of corruption Bawankule was not given ticket for contesting Assembly election by BJP, it was given to his wife Jyoti, she filled the form for 2019 assembly election from Kamthi, but at the last moment after her form filling, Jyoti was denied AB form by BJP.[8] He was Secretary of Bhartiya Janata Party, Maharashtra State Unit in Devendra Fadnavis team in 2012. In cabinet expansion he was given state excise department charge on 10 July 2016.

Background and family

Chandrashekhar Bawankule was born in Kamthi into a Marathi Teli family.

Chandrashekhar Bawankule married Jyoti. He has a daughter Payal married to Lokesh Ashtankar and son Sanket married to Anushka.

Early life

Bawankule was born & brought up in a farmers' family with a non-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 without any self-interest. Then he joined Bhartiya Janata Party under leadership of Late Gopinath Munde & Nitin Gadkari in 1995 and became 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.

Within BJP

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 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.
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