Madan Madhukarrao Yerawar

Madan Madhukarrao Yerawar is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and also the Minister of State for Energry, Tourism, Food and Drugs Administration and GAD [1] and is currently holding five offices under him. He represents the Yavatmal Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been a former member of the Assembly from Yavatmal.[2][3] His victory was amongst the five seats won by the BJP, that resulted in the Indian National Congress (INC) not being able to win a single seat in Yavatmal district once its stronghold.[4] He is a stakeholder in Chintamani Agrotech a company involved in power generation in Yavatmal, a company that had Nitin Gadkari as one of its directors.[2] He is considered as a "protege'" of Gadkari, and the 2014 contest had been considered as a "prestige issue" for Gadkari and Ajit Pawar whose mentee Sandeep Bajoria was pitted against him.[5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/maharashtra-cabinet-reshuffle-cm-allocated-portfolios-to-newly-sworn-in-ministers-2904213/
  2. 1 2 Jain, Sreenivasan (2012-05-19). "Vidarbha: The Lie of the Land". NDTV. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". India Today. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  4. ↑ Abraham, T. O. (2014-10-19). "Congress routed in Yavatmal dist". Times of India. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Abraham, T. O. (2014-10-12). "Yavatmal and Arni are prestige issue for Cong, BJP, NCP". Times of India. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  6. ↑ http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/rejected-lover-attacks-bjp-mla-s-daughter-outside-college-in-pune/story-8mwye5cquJhjyKz7v2vYhL.html
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