Anandrao Vithoba Adsul Explained

Anandrao Vithoba Adsul
Birth Date:1 June 1947
Birth Place:At.Shirambe, Tq. Koregaon taluka Dist.Satara District
Residence:Mumbai
Constituency1:Buldhana
Office1:Member of Parliament
Term Start1:1996
Term End1:2009
Constituency:Amravati
Office:Member of Parliament
Term Start:2009
Term End:2019
Predecessor1:Mukul Wasnik
Successor1:Prataprao Jadhav
Successor:Navnit Ravi Rana
Committees1:Chairman, Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers (2014-)
Office2:Leader of Shiv Sena Party
Term Start2:January 2018
Term End2:May 2019
Office3:Union Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Company Affairs
Term Start3:August 2002
Term End3:May 2004
Predecessor3:Anant Geete
Successor3:S. S. Palanimanickam
Party: Shiv Sena
Spouse:Mangala
Children:1 son and 2 daughters
Date:16 September
Year:2006
Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20060620065530/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=8
Primeminister3:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Predecessor:Anant Gudhe

Anandrao Vithoba Adsul (born 1 June 1947) was a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Amravati constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party.[1] He had represented the Amravati constituency in 15th Lok Sabha and Buldhana constituency of Maharashtra in the 14th Lok Sabha, 13th Lok Sabha and 11th Lok Sabha.

He has been honored with Sansad Ratna Award in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In July 2022, he resigned from Shiv Sena as a leader of the party.[2]

Career

He served as a Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha from Amravati till 2019. He served as the Union Minister of State for Finance in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet till 2004. He was the chairperson of two corporations from 1995 to 1999 in the Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra.[2]

Adsul contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a Shiv Sena candidate, and he lost the election by 30,000 votes to Navneet Kaur Rana, a former Telugu actress who contested the election as an independent candidate.[2]

In October 2021, his name surfaced in the news in connection with an alleged ₹980-crore fraud at City Co-operative Bank, which is being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).[3]

Positions held

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adsul,Shri Anandrao. Lok Sabha. 2 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110521044314/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=8. 21 May 2011. dead. dmy-all.
  2. News: Naik . Yogesh . Former MP Adsul resigns as Shiv Sena leader . . July 7, 2022.
  3. News: City Co-operative Bank ‘fraud’: ED searches office of Shiv Sena’s Anandrao Adsul . Indian Express] . October 1, 2021.
  4. Web site: Detailed Profile: Shri Anandrao Adsul. Government of India. 15 October 2015.
  5. News: एकनाथ शिंदे, आनंदराव अडसूळ, अनंत गीते, चंद्रकांत खैरे, आदित्य ठाकरे यांची सेनेच्या नेतेपदी वर्णी. www.loksatta.com. hi.