Kunal Rohidas Patil

Kunal Rohidas Patil is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.He won this constituency in a row second time for MLA . He represents the Dhule Rural Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Indian National Congress.[1] He is the son of Indian National Congress leader and former minister[2] Rohidas Patil.[3]

Kunal Rohidas Patil
Member of Legislative Assembly Maharashtra
Assumed office
2014
Preceded bySharad Patil
ConstituencyDhule Rural (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Personal details
NationalityIndian
Political partyIndian National Congress


He won the Dhule Rural constituency in 2019 in Maharashtra Assembly elections by 14564 votes against BJP candidate Dnyanjyoti Manohar Patil(Bhadane).

Also, on the orders of Congress party leaders, contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 in Dhule Lok Sabha constituency On 22 March 2017, Patil was suspended along with 18 other MLAs until 31 December for interrupting Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar during a state budget session and burning copies of the budget outside the assembly four days earlier.[4]

Patil has been chairman of Shivaji Vidya Prasarak Sanstha, an over hundred year old educational institution[5] based in Dhule.[6] and celebrated Golden Jubilee last year. The Sanstha runs all the professional courses from Primary education to Engineering College, Polytechnic, Arts, Commerce and Science Colleges and 40 schools in the district.

References
  1. "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". India Today. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  2. "Lobbying for MLC seat in Cong; Rohidas Patil, Sanjay Dutt in race". The Indian Express. 30 October 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  3. "6 Mumbai Corporators, 3 Council members make it to Maharashtra Assembly". The Economic Times. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  4. "Maharashtra Assembly ruckus: Speaker suspends 19 MLAs till December 31". 22 March 2017.
  5. Maharashtra (India); Maharashtra (India). Gazetteers Dept (1974). Maharashtra State Gazetteers: Dhulia. Director of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, Maharashtra State. p. 779.
  6. "रोहिदास पाटील यांच्याविरोधात फसवणुकीचा गुन्हा दाखल". IBN-Lokmat (in Marathi). 7 March 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
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