Shankarrao Gadakh Patil | |
Native Name Lang: | Marathi |
Office: | Cabinet Minister Government of Maharashtra |
Minister: |
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Term Start: | 30 December 2019 |
Term End: | 29 June 2022 |
1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata: | Uddhav Thackeray |
2Namedata: | Ajit Pawar |
Governor: | Bhagat Singh Koshyari |
Office2: | Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra |
Term Start2: | 2019 |
Constituency2: | Nevasa |
Party: | Shiv Sena |
Occupation: | Politician |
Nationality: | Indian |
Office1: | Guardian Minister, Osmanabad District[1] |
Term Start1: | 9 January 2020 |
Term End1: | 29 June 2022 |
Shankarrao Gadakh (born 29 May 1970 in the village of Sonai, Maharashtra, India) is Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Nevasa.[2] Gadakh had wrested the Nevasa seat from the BJP in the 2019 assembly polls by defeating BJP candidate with a convincing margin. He is member of the Shiv Sena and former minister of Soil and Water Conservation in Government of Maharashtra.[3]
Having entered politics in 1995 at the age of 25, Gadakh began as a Youth Congress campaigner.In 2017 he founded the party Krantikari Shetkari Party and fought local elections. Krantikari Paksha now has 5 Ahmednagar Zilla Parishad members, 12 Nevasa Panchayat Samiti members and 9 Nagarsevaks in Nevasa. He is also known as "Panidar Aamdar" by his constituency for his good work during drought like conditions in Nevasa constituency.
On 11 August 2020 he dissolved Krantikari Shetkari Paksha and joined Shiv Sena.