A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he represented the Kamthi Assembly Constituency, being elected from there in 2004, 2009 & 2014.[7] 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.
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 It was given to his wife Jyoti instead, but later rescinded from her as well.
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