| Bapusaheb Pathare | |
| Office: | Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start: | 2009 |
| Term End: | 2014 |
| Successor: | Jagdish Tukaram Mulik |
| Constituency: | Vadgaon Sheri |
| Children: | Surendra Pathare |
Bapusaheb Tukaram Pathare (also known as Bapu Pathare[1] and Bapusaheb Pathare[2]) is an Indian politician and a former member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He served as the first corporator of Kharadi and was a member of the district council of Pune. He was a chairperson of the Pune Municipal Corporation. He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2009 from the Vadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency.
Bapusaheb Pathare grew up in Vadgaon Sheri, Pune.[3] At an early age, he became a local sarpanch and then entered the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and became the chairperson of its standing committee.[3] He was the corporator of PMC by 2009 when he contested the Vadgaon Sheri constituency seat in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections with a ticket from the Nationalist Congress Party.[3] [4] He won against Ajay Bhosale of the Shiv Sena with a margin of 33,116 votes.[4]
Pathare was a member of the district council of Pune and the first corporator of Kharadi.[5] He and his family is said to have a dominance in the political leadership in the suburb of Kharadi, ever since it was a gram panchayat.[6] Kharadi was annexed to the Pune Municipal Corporation in 1997,[6] and the Pathare family led by Bapsaheb actively participated in the city politics afterwards.[5] Indian Express reported in March 2013 that the politics in Vadgaon Sheri is dominated by Pathare and his family, led by him.[3]
In October 2019, Pathare joined the Bhartiya Janata Party.[7]