Anandrao Vithoba Adsul | |
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![]() Anandrao Vithoba Adsul in 2016 | |
Member of Parliament | |
In office 2009–2019 | |
Preceded by | Anant Gudhe |
Succeeded by | Navnit Ravi Rana |
Constituency | Amravati |
Member of Parliament | |
In office 1996–2009 | |
Preceded by | Mukul Wasnik |
Succeeded by | Prataprao Jadhav |
Constituency | Buldhana |
Leader of Shiv Sena Party | |
In office January 2018 – May 2019 | |
Union Minister of State, Ministry of Finance and Company Affairs | |
In office August 2002 – May 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | Anant Geete |
Succeeded by | S. S. Palanimanickam |
Personal details | |
Born | (1947-06-01)1 June 1947 (age 77) At.Shirambe, Tq.Koregaon taluka Dist.Satara District |
Political party | ![]() |
Spouse | Mangala |
Children | 3 |
Residence | Mumbai |
Committees | Chairman, Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers (2014-) |
As of 16 September, 2006 Source:https://sansad.in/ls/members/biographyM/8?from=members |
Anandrao Vithoba Adsul (born 1 June 1947) was a member of the16th Lok Sabha ofIndia. He represented theAmravati constituency ofMaharashtra and is a member of theShiv Sena (SS) political party.[1]He had represented theAmravati constituency in15th Lok Sabha andBuldhana constituency ofMaharashtra in the14th Lok Sabha,13th Lok Sabha and11th Lok Sabha.[1]
He has been honored with Sansad Ratna Award in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In July 2022, he resigned fromShiv Sena as a leader of the party.[2]
He served as aMember of Parliament ofLok Sabha fromAmravati till 2019. He served as the Union Minister of State for Finance in Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet till 2004. He was the chairperson of two corporations from 1995 to 1999 in the Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra.[2]
Adsul contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a Shiv Sena candidate, and he lost the election by 30,000 votes toNavneet Kaur Rana, a formerTelugu actress who contested the election as an independent candidate.[2]
In October 2021, his name surfaced in the news in connection with an alleged ₹980-crore fraud at City Co-operative Bank, which is being investigated by theEnforcement Directorate (ED).[3]
16th September 2024 appointed as chairman of Maharashtra Sc St Commission.