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Prithviraj Yashwantrao Chavan
Chavan in 2009
17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
In office 11 November 2010 – 28 September 2014
Preceded by
Ashok Chavan
Succeeded by
President's rule
Leader of the House Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
In office 11 November 2010 – 26 September 2014
Speaker
Dilip Walse-Patil
Preceded by
Ashok Chavan
Succeeded by
Devendra Fadnavis
Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office
In office 22 May 2004 – 25 September 2010
President
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Pratibha Patil
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Ministry
Parliamentary Affairs
Department of Personnel and Training
Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare
Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 13 March 2002 – 20 September 2010
Constituency
Maharashtra
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 3 May 1991 – 20 June 1999
Preceded by
Premala Chavan
Succeeded by
Shriniwas Patil
Constituency
Karad
Member of Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 October 2014
Preceded by
Vilasrao Balkrishna Patil
Constituency
Karad South
Personal details
Born
(1946-03-17) 17 March 1946 (age 78) Indore, Indore State, British India (present-day Madhya Pradesh, India)
Political party
Indian National Congress
Spouse
Satvasheela Chavan
(m. 1976)
Residence(s)
Kumbhargaon, Maharashtra
Alma mater
BITS, Pilani (B.E.) University of California, Berkeley (M.S.)
Prithviraj Chavan (Marathi pronunciation:[prut̪ʱʋiːɾaːd͡ʑt͡səʋʱaːɳ]) (born 17 March 1946) is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Chavan is a graduate of BITS Pilani and University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering. He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974. Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean, non-controversial image, a low-profile leader. Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions. Chavan was also General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC), in-charge of many states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Haryana, Gujarat, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh.
Chavan was drawn into politics after meeting with Rajiv Gandhi. He has been involved in the Indian National Congress bureaucracy for most of his adult life, notably as a member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the India's Parliament) and later architect of the civil nuclear liability bill. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 and followed it up in subsequent elections. Chavan held five portfolios in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that includes the ministry of science and technology. He became chief minister of Maharashtra in 2010 at the insistence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi succeeding unrelated Ashok Chavan. He resigned as the chief minister of Maharashtra after the ruling NCP-Congress alliance split in the state.
PrithvirajChavan (Marathi pronunciation: [prut̪ʱʋiːɾaːd͡ʑ t͡səʋʱaːɳ]) (born 17 March 1946) is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of...
PrithvirajChavan was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on November 11, 2010. The following is his cabinet. The government consisted of Chavan's...
veterans in the upmarket Colaba area of Mumbai. He was succeeded by PrithvirajChavan. Despite the corruption allegations, the Congress party put him up...
Premala married Dajisaheb Chavan on 27 April 1942. She was the mother of the ex-Chief Minister of Maharashtra, PrithvirajChavan, along with Nirupama Ajitrao...
Accordingly, on 22 March 2012, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, PrithvirajChavan announced in the legislative assembly that the two IAS officers whose...
(cricketer), Indian cricketer PrithvirajChavan (born 1946), Indian politician, chief minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Kapoor (1906–1972), Indian theatre...
Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha Deputy Speaker PrithvirajChavan (born 1946), 22nd Chief Minister of Maharashtra, India Shankarrao Chavan, (1920–2004), Chief Minister of...
(Vidhan Sabha constituency). In May 2014 he was inducted into the PrithvirajChavan ministry as the Minister of Medical Education, Horticulture, Employment...
Congress started its campaign on 1 September at Hutatma Chowk, Mumbai. PrithvirajChavan, the incumbent Chief Minister led the campaign with Narayan Rane heading...
Employment Guarantee Scheme and Additional charge of School Education in PrithvirajChavan's cabinet. He is a well-known and a leading face in the cooperative...
Sabha seat after his death. Their son Prithviraj was Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Dajisaheb Chavan was born at Kumbhargaon, in the Satara...
Classes in the PrithvirajChavan ministry (2010 - 2014) Minister of Transport, Ports, and Law & Judiciary in the Second Ashok Chavan ministry (2009 -...
In view of the criticism of the home department, chief minister PrithvirajChavan sent police commissioner Vinod Lokhande on leave for his dismal performance...
Krishna (15 August 2012). "Deshmukh's son Amit may get Cabinet berth in Chavan government". India Today. Retrieved 13 May 2022. Ray-Goswami, Samyabrata...
Development Minister in the Second Ashok Chavan ministry and continued with the same in the PrithvirajChavan ministry. His tenure as the Rural Development...
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Congress leader PrithvirajChavan as the Chief minister of Maharashtra. Speaker: Dilip Walse-Patil, NCP Deputy Speaker: Madhukarrao Chavan, INC (10 December...
Resources, Parliamentary Affairs and State Excise in the chief minister PrithvirajChavan Government of Maharashtra. He has studied Post Graduation in Commerce...
state assembly. He had criticised the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, PrithvirajChavan, stating that the minister had disappointed the progressive people...
split after last election Current seats 10 7 9 Leader Supriya Sule PrithvirajChavan Ajit Pawar Party NCP(SP) INC NCP Alliance INDIA INDIA NDA Leader since...
came from Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan, Chief Minister PrithvirajChavan, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Republican Party of India leader...
Maharashtra state government for fifteen years until September 2014. PrithvirajChavan of the Congress party was the last Chief Minister of Maharashtra under...
invisible: PrithvirajChavan quits as CM, did anyone notice?". Firstpost. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014. "Maharashtra CM PrithvirajChavan's rivals...
to the CBI. Several media persons met the state's chief minister, PrithvirajChavan, to put forth their demand of handing over the case to the CBI. The...
he retained the Water Resources Ministry in Deshmukh's and later Ashok Chavan's cabinets.[citation needed] On 23 November 2019, Pawar defected from the...