Nana Patole | |
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28th President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee | |
In office 5 February 2021 –13 February 2025 | |
National President Indian National Congress | Sonia Gandhi Mallikarjun Kharge |
Preceded by | Balasaheb Thorat |
Succeeded by | Harshwardhan Vasantrao Sapkal |
15th Speaker of the House Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2 December 2019 –4 February 2021 | |
Governor | Bhagat Singh Koshyari |
Deputy | Zirwal Narhari Sitaram |
Chief Minister | Uddhav Thackeray |
Leader of the House | Uddhav Thackeray |
Preceded by | Haribhau Bagade |
Succeeded by | Zirwal Narhari Sitaram (Acting) |
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 21 October 2019 | |
Preceded by | Rajesh Lahanu Kashiwar |
Constituency | Sakoli |
In office 27 November 2009 –19 October 2014 | |
Preceded by | Sevakbhau Nirdhanji Waghaye (Patil) |
Succeeded by | Rajesh Lahanu Kashiwar |
Constituency | Sakoli |
In office 1999–2009 | |
Preceded by | Kapgate Dayaram Maroti |
Succeeded by | Abolished |
Constituency | Lakhandur Assembly Constituency |
Member of Parliament Lok Sabha | |
In office 19 May 2014 –31 May 2018 | |
Preceded by | Praful Patel |
Succeeded by | Madhukar Kukde |
Constituency | Bhandara–Gondiya |
Personal details | |
Born | Nana Falgunrao Patole 5 June 1963 Bhandara,Maharashtra,India |
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Spouse | Mangla Patole |
Children | 3 |
Residence(s) | Sukli,Sakoli,Bhandara,Maharashtra,India |
Education | Post Graduate |
Occupation | Maharashtra Politician |
Profession | Politician |
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Nana Patole (born 5 June 1963) is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress Party and the President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee since 2021. [1] [2] [3]
Nana Patole was born on June 5,1963,in Gondia,Maharashtra to Falgunrao Patole and Mirabai Patole. [4] His father worked as an agricultural officer,while his mother was a housewife. Patole completed his primary education in Sakoli and pursued his secondary and higher secondary education in schools in Gondia and Chandrapur. [5] [6] He completed his college education BA from Manoharbhai Patel College (MBPC) in Sakoli,Maharashtra. [7] [1]
He focused on the issues faced by farmers and marginalized communities. In response to the government's Forest-Land Act,Patole organized an anti-encroachment march on September 5,2022 and was detained and later went on hunger strike in jail to seek justice. [8] [9] Later government suspended the encroachment removal program. [9] [10] [11] [12]
He takes the credit on completion of Durgabai Doh dam project on the Chulband River,which began in 1995 and was finished in 2015,providing irrigation to 9,634 hectares of farmland and benefiting multiple villages. [13]
As a member of Indian National Congress party,he served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lakhandur Assembly constituency after delimitation he served as member of Sakoli from 2009. He also held the position of Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for a short term. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections,he contested as the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Bhandara–Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency and secured victory,defeating then Union Minister Praful Patel of Nationalist Congress Party by a margin of 149,254 votes. [14] In 2018,Patole resigned from his Lok Sabha membership by submitting his resignation letter to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and subsequently rejoined the Indian National Congress. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]