Jayant Patil

Jayant Rajaram Patil (born 1962) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He was the Cabinet Minister of Rural Development in Prithviraj Chavan cabinet.

Jayant Patil is a son of renowned leader of Maharashtra late Shri. Rajarambapu Patil. After the sudden Death of Rajarambapu Patil in 1984, Jayant Patil had to return from the USA where he was pursuing his higher Education after consistent demand from the people of Walwa and Islampur.

After returning to his home town he preferred not contest any parliamentary election immediately and Became the chairman of cooperative sugar factory. After working around six years in the overall development of the Sangli area, Patil was given a ticket to contest the state assembly election from Walwa Islampur constituency. He has represented Islampur Walwa constituency 6 times that is 27 years. ^[1][2]

He was finance minister of Maharashtra from October 1999 to December 2008 in Congress and Nationalist Congress Party government. he has a record of presenting budget continuously 9 times in state assembly.During 2003-04 when economy of Maharashtra was deteriorating, Patil stabilised the economy of Maharashtra.

In the aftermath of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, R. R. Patil took the moral responsibility and offered to resign, which was then accepted by the party and Patil was elected as Home Minister of Maharashtra in Ashok Chavan cabinet.^[3][4] as a Home Minister of Maharashtra Patil played a highly crucial role in modernising the Maharashtra Police. Patil, established the Force 1 and gave highly modern weapons to the police.

Patil was personally interrogating the trail of 26/11 attacks which led to the execution of Ajmal Kasab. Patil as well exposed the involvement of Pakistan in 26/11 attacks through evidence.

He was a Minister of Rural Development from 2009 to 2014 in Government of Maharashtra. Under his leadership Maharashtra ranked first in the rural development amongst all states in India continuously for three years. Patil was felicitated by the then Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi .

He has established renowned education and cooperative institutes. Some of those have achieved high position in International diaspora 1.Rajarambapu Institute of Technology (RIT), Sangli 2.Cooperative Milk Federation popularly known as Krishna Dudh 3.Sugar factories 4.Rajarambapu Textile park 5.Rajarambapu sahkari bank Limited( Scheduled bank) 6.Kasegaon Education Society 7.Food Processing units

Patil is currently working as Leader of NCP in Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha. He led the statewide Halla Bol agitations against the current state government of BJP. He is known as clean, highly educated and non Corrupt face of Nationalist Congress Party. Patil is close aide of Sharad Pawar.

In April 2018, he was elected as state president (chief) of the Nationalist Congress Party in the place of former state chief Sunil Tatkare.

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