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Chandrakant Sonawane

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Chandrakant Sonawane
Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra
In office
2014–2019
Preceded byLatabai Sonawane
ConstituencyChopda
Personal details
NationalityIndian
Political partyShiv Sena

Chandrakant Baliram Sonawane is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Chopda Assembly Constituency.[1] He belongs to the Shiv Sena party.[2]

Early life

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Chandrakant Sonawane was born in a Agriculturist Koli family of Jalgaon district of Maharashtra in 1961.[3]

Political career

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He was convicted by Dhule District Court for his involvement in Jalgaon housing scam (Marathi: घरकुल घोटाळा) of 1996. Then MLA Suresh Jain was mastermind of that scam and he got seven years imprisonment. [4][5]

Positions held

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  • 2013: Elected as Corporator in Jalgaon Municipal Corporation [6]
  • 2014: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
  • 2015: Elected as Director of Jalgaon District Central Co-operative Bank [7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Shiv Sena MLAs 2014". Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". India Today. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Shinde group MLA in trouble as SC dismisses plea against Bombay HC ruling". The Times of India. 11 September 2022. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Two former Maharashtra ministers convicted in Rs 110-crore Jalgaon housing scam case - the Economic Times".
  5. ^ "Maharashtra ex-ministers, 46 others sentenced in multi-crore housing scam". September 2019.
  6. ^ "Jalgaon City Municipal Corporation Election Results 2013". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  7. ^ "जळगाव जिल्हा बँकेवर सहकार पॅनल".