Girish Dattatray Mahajan is a politician from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. He is the current MLA of Jamner taluka representing Jamner vidhan sabha constituency. He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. Girish Mahajan is cabinet minister for Water resources (Tapi,Vidarbha and konkan),Kumbhmela and Disaster Management of Maharashtra state.He is also the guardian minister of Nashik. [1]
As a college student, Mahajan was an active member of ABVP in 1978.[3] In the ABVP, he started as a grassroots worker where he painted walls and distributed promotional posters for politicians. He was appointed Taluka President of ABVP.
Mahajan's political career commenced in earnest in the early eighties, when he became Taluka President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (youth wing of the BJP) in Maharashtra.[citation needed]
In 1992, Mahajan was elected as a Gram-Panchayat election for Jamner. In 1995 he was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the first time. He served his 5th term as MLA as of 2014. Mahajan was sworn in as the Minister of Water Resources[4] of Maharashtra on 31 October 2014. His government won a confidence motion by oral vote on 12 November 2014 allowing it to continue to govern.
As of 29 August 2023, he is serving as the Minister of Rural Development of the state in CM Eknath Shinde's cabinet.[1]
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