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Prithviraj Chavan

17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra

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17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra

Field	Value
name	Prithviraj Dajisaheb Chavan
image	Prithviraj Chavan with Hon'ble President.jpg
caption	Prithviraj chavan
office	17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
term_start	11 November 2010
term_end	28 September 2014
predecessor	Ashok Chavan
successor	President's rule
office2	Leader of the House
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
1blankname2	Speaker
1namedata2	Dilip Walse-Patil
termstart2	11 November 2010
termend2	26 September 2014
predecessor2	Ashok Chavan
successor2	Devendra Fadnavis
office3	Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office
primeminister3	Manmohan Singh
president3	*A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
term_start3	22 May 2004
term_end3	25 September 2010
1blankname3	Ministry
1namedata3	* Parliamentary Affairs
office4	Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
constituency4	Maharashtra
term_start4	13 March 2002
term_end4	20 September 2010
office5	Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
constituency5	Karad
term_start5	3 May 1991
term_end5	20 June 1999
predecessor5	Premala Chavan
successor5	Shriniwas Patil
office6	Member of Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
constituency6	Karad South
term_start6	19 October 2014
term_end6	23 November 2024
predecessor6	Vilasrao Balkrishna Patil
successor6	Atulbaba Suresh Bhosale
birth_date
birth_place	Indore, Indore State, British India
(present-day Madhya Pradesh, India)
residence	Kumbhargaon, Maharashtra
party	Indian National Congress
spouse
alma_mater	BITS, Pilani (B.E.)
University of California, Berkeley (M.S.)

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly ](list-of-leaders-of-the-house-in-the-maharashtra-legislative-assembly)

Pratibha Patil
Department of Personnel and Training
Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare
Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (present-day Madhya Pradesh, India) University of California, Berkeley (M.S.)

Prithviraj Chavan (; born 17 March 1946) is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Chavan is a graduate of BITS Pilani and University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering. He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974. Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean, non-controversial image, a low-profile leader. Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions. Chavan was also General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC), in-charge of many states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Haryana, Gujarat, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh.

Chavan was drawn into politics after meeting with Rajiv Gandhi. He has been involved in the Indian National Congress bureaucracy for most of his adult life, notably as a member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the India's Parliament) and later architect of the civil nuclear liability bill. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 and followed it up in subsequent elections. Chavan held five portfolios in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that includes the ministry of science and technology. He became chief minister of Maharashtra in 2010 at the insistence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi succeeding unrelated Ashok Chavan. He resigned as the chief minister of Maharashtra after the ruling NCP-Congress alliance split in the state.

He contested the 2024 legislative assembly elections from the Karad South constituency but lost by a huge margin to Dr. Atulbaba Suresh Bhosale of the BJP.

Early life

Chavan was born in a Maratha family in Indore, Central Provinces on 17 March 1946. His parents were Dajisaheb Chavan and Premala. He is the eldest of three siblings. His younger sisters are Nirupama Ajitrao Yadav-Deshmukh and Vidyulata Venkatrao Ghorpade. Dajisaheb was a member of the Lok Sabha from the Karad constituency from 1957 to 1973 & served as a Minister in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi. Upon Dajisaheb's death in 1973, Chavan's mother, Premala (affectionately known as Premalakaki, aunt Premala) contested from her late husband's constituency and was elected in the by election in 1973 and in the general elections of 1977, 1984, and 1989 serving till her death in 1991.

Chavan began his schooling at a local Municipal Marathi-medium school in Karad. After his father moved to Delhi, Chavan joined Nutan Marathi School in Delhi. Chavan graduated in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani. After graduation in 1967, he won a UNESCO scholarship in Germany and later moved to pursue a Master of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote articles on computer science; engineering design; and also contributed to research in computerization. He also worked briefly in the US as a design engineer, working on defence electronics, anti-submarine warfare, computer storage systems, and computerisation of Indian languages.

Political career

Prithviraj Chavan assumes the charge of Minister of State for PMO in New Delhi on 24 May 2004

Chavan started his political career in 1991 by winning his parents old seat of Karad to the Lok sabha. He went on to win the seat thrice, in 1991, 1996 and 1998 but lost in 1999.

Chavan as 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra meeting U.S President [[Barack Obama

He served as a Minister of State for the ministries of Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and in charge of Prime Minister's Office. Earlier he also served as the Minister of State in charge of the Department of Atomic Energy. Chavan replaced Ashok Chavan as chief minister after the latter's involvement in the Adarsh Housing Society scam forced him to resign. Reasons for his choice reported by the media included the perception that he had a "clean image" and that he did not have his own faction of political supporters within the state. He was elected as MLC after Sanjay Satishchandra Dutt vacated his seat.

One of his first actions as Chief Minister was to play a role along with Civil Aviation minister Praful Patel, in convincing Jairam Ramesh, the Minister for Environment And Forests in obtaining environmental clearance for the planned second airport in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai International Airport.

Personal life

Chavan married Satvasheela on 16 December 1976. They have a daughter, Ankita and a son named Jai. Ankita married on 29 November 2013 in Delhi.

Posts held

1991-92 Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Science and Technology.
1992-93 Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Ministry of Environment and Forests.
1994-96 Member, Standing Committee on Finance and Planning.
1996-99 Member, Committee on Provision of Computers to Members of Parliament.
2000-01 Spokesperson, All India Congress Committee.
2002-04 Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence.
2004-22 May 2009 and 28 May 2009 onward Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office.
11 November 2010 - 28 September 2014 - Chief Minister of Maharashtra
19 October 2014 - 26 November 2024 - Member of Legislative Assembly

References

(2010-11-11). "Prithviraj Chavan: Homecoming Of A Space Engineer".
"Shri Prithviraj Chavan". [[National Informatics Centre]].
"Prithviraj Chavan {{!}} InterAction Council".
(11 November 2010). "Shri Prithviraj Chavan".
Gupta, Smita. (10 November 2010). "Prithviraj, with a clean image, takes up key political assignment". [[The Hindu]].
(27 September 2014). "Clean yet invisible: Prithviraj Chavan quits as CM, did anyone notice?". [[Firstpost]].
(16 August 2014). "Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan's rivals get key posts for Assembly polls". [[India Today]].
(28 April 2012). "Right man in the wrong polity". [[Tehelka]].
(23 November 2010). "Green signal for Navi Mumbai airport". [[The Hindu]].

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