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]
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]