Gulabrao Deokar

Gulabrao Baburao Deokar was a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Jalgaon Rural Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party.

Gulabrao Baburao Deokar
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
In office
(2009–2014)
Succeeded byGulab Raghunath Patil
ConstituencyJalgaon Rural
Cabinet Minister in Second Ashok Chavan ministry
In office
07 November 2009  10 November 2010
Minister
Cabinet Minister in Prithviraj Chavan ministry
In office
11 June 2013  26 September 2014
Minister
Personal details
Born1956[1]
Political partyNationalist Congress Party (?-present)
ParentBaburao Deoakar (Father)
Residence(s)Jalgaon, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, India
Education10th [1]
Occupation
  • Politician
  • businessman
Profession
  • politician
  • businessman

Gulabrao Deokar is an Indian politician belonging of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. He was member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and the minister for Urban transport of Maharashtra State. He is a convicted criminal in Jalgaon housing scam.[2]

He owns and operates many private colleges in Jalgaon city.[3][4][5]

Personal life

Gulabrao Deoakar was born to Baburao Deoakar. He is studied till 10th class and then dropped-out. As of 2019, he have total asset of 5.07 Cr, movable assets of 1.34 Cr, immovable property of 3.73 Cr and there are two court cases on him.[1]

Career

Deokar was a member in Jalgaon town's local administrative body. After he found guilty by district court in Jalgaon housing scam, due to political pressure he resigned from the post of state's Urban transport minister. Later NCP also expelled him from party. Over the years Deokar built many private colleges in Jalgaon city. In 2014 while in prison for the corruption he contested for Assembly election but ended up losing. In 2019 he again contested in 2019 Indian general election to become Member of Indian parliament but again ended up losing. Despite he got convicted in one of the massive corruption scam in history of Maharashtra, he still enjoys large support in and around Jalgaon city. It is reported that the scam was masterminded by then MLA Suresh Jain caused 150 crore loss to Jalgaon Municipal Corporation, and poor public of Jalgaon did not get the promised affordable houses. The investigation and court proceedings of the scam ran for more than 7 years due to Suresh Jain's arm beding tactics.[6][7][8][2]

Jalgaon housing scam

In 2019, Dule District Court sentenced Devkar five years of imprisonment in the 110 crore Jalgaon housing scam case. He was a member of the Jalgaon Municipal Corporation during this major fraud.[9][10][11][12]

Businesses

Amid 2000s to 2010s he started many private colleges in Jalgaon city and named them after him such as Gulabrao Deokar institute of pharmacy and research centre, Gulabrao Deokar college of engineering, a polytechnic college etc. To study in these colleges, students have to pay large amount of fees and sometimes donations if tried to take admission from management quota.[4][3][5]

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