Chandrakant Sonawane

Chandrakant Sonawane
Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra
Assumed office
(2014-2019), (2024-Present)
Preceded byJagdishchandra Walvi
Succeeded byLatabai Sonawane
ConstituencyChopda
Personal details
PartyShiv Sena

Chandrakant Baliram Sonawane is a member of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Chopda Assembly Constituency.[1] He belongs to the Shiv Sena party.[2]

Early life

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

Political career

He was convicted by Dhule District Court of 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

  • 2013: Elected as Corporator in Jalgaon Municipal Corporation [6]
  • 2014: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly[7]
  • 2015: Elected as Director of Jalgaon District Central Co-operative Bank [8]

See also

References

  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. ↑ India Today (19 October 2014). "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". Archived from the original on 20 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  8. ↑ "जळगाव जिल्हा बँकेवर सहकार पॅनल".