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Chandrakant Sonawane

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Chandrakant Sonawane
Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra
In office
2014–2019
ConstituencyChopda
Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra
In office
2024–Incumbent
Preceded byLatabai Sonawane
Preceded byLatabai Sonawane
Personal details
NationalityIndian
Political 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

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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[7]
  • 2015: Elected as Director of Jalgaon District Central Co-operative Bank [8]

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. ^ 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".