Prithviraj Dajisaheb Chavan | |
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 Prithviraj chavan | |
| 17thChief Minister of Maharashtra | |
| In office 11 November 2010 – 28 September 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Ashok Chavan |
| Succeeded by | President's rule |
| Leader of the House Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 11 November 2010 – 26 September 2014 | |
| Speaker | Dilip Walse-Patil |
| Preceded by | Ashok Chavan |
| Succeeded by | Devendra Fadnavis |
| Minister of State forPrime Minister's Office | |
| In office 22 May 2004 – 25 September 2010 | |
| President | |
| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Ministry |
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| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 13 March 2002 – 20 September 2010 | |
| Constituency | Maharashtra |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 3 May 1991 – 20 June 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Premala Chavan |
| Succeeded by | Shriniwas Patil |
| Constituency | Karad |
| Member of Legislative Assembly,Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 19 October 2014 – 23 November 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Vilasrao Balkrishna Patil |
| Succeeded by | Atulbaba Suresh Bhosale |
| Constituency | Karad South |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1946-03-17)17 March 1946 (age 79) |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse | |
| Residence(s) | Kumbhargaon,Maharashtra |
| Alma mater | BITS, Pilani (B.E.) University of California, Berkeley (M.S.) |
Prithviraj Chavan (Marathi pronunciation:[prut̪ʱʋiːɾaːd͡ʑt͡səʋʱaːɳ]; born 17 March 1946) is an Indian politician who was the17thChief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Chavan is a graduate ofBITS Pilani andUniversity of California, Berkeley inmechanical engineering. He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974. Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean, non-controversial image, a low-profile leader. Chavan served as theMinister of State in thePrime Minister's Office in theMinistry of Parliamentary Affairs andMinistry of Personnel, Public Grievances, andPensions. Chavan was alsoGeneral Secretary of theAll-India Congress Committee (AICC), in-charge of many states, includingJammu and Kashmir,Karnataka,Haryana,Gujarat,Tripura, andArunachal Pradesh.
Chavan was drawn into politics after meeting withRajiv Gandhi. He has been involved in theIndian National Congress bureaucracy for most of his adult life, notably as a member of theRajya Sabha (the upper house of theIndia's Parliament) and later architect of thecivil nuclear liability bill. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 and followed it up in subsequent elections. Chavan held five portfolios in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that includes the ministry of science and technology. He became chief minister of Maharashtra in 2010 at the insistence of Congress PresidentSonia Gandhi succeeding unrelatedAshok Chavan. He resigned as the chief minister of Maharashtra after the ruling NCP-Congress alliance split in the state.
He contested the 2024 legislative assembly elections from the Karad South constituency but lost by a huge margin to Dr. Atulbaba Suresh Bhosale of the BJP.
Chavan was born in aMaratha family[1] inIndore,Central Provinces on 17 March 1946.[2] His parents wereDajisaheb Chavan andPremala. He is the eldest of three siblings. His younger sisters are Nirupama Ajitrao Yadav-Deshmukh and Vidyulata Venkatrao Ghorpade. Dajisaheb was a member of theLok Sabha from theKarad constituency from 1957 to 1973 & served as a Minister in the cabinets of Prime MinistersJawaharlal Nehru,Lal Bahadur Shastri andIndira Gandhi. Upon Dajisaheb's death in 1973, Chavan's mother, Premala (affectionately known as Premalakaki, aunt Premala) contested from her late husband's constituency and was elected in the by election in 1973 and in the general elections of 1977, 1984, and 1989 serving till her death in 1991.
Chavan began his schooling at a local Municipal Marathi-medium school in Karad. After his father moved toDelhi, Chavan joined Nutan Marathi School in Delhi. Chavan graduated inMechanical Engineering fromBITS Pilani. After graduation in 1967, he won aUNESCO scholarship in Germany and later moved to pursue aMaster of Science degree from theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[3] He wrote articles on computer science; engineering design; and also contributed to research in computerization. He also worked briefly in the US as adesign engineer, working on defence electronics,anti-submarine warfare, computer storage systems, and computerisation of Indian languages.[4]
Chavan started his political career in 1991 by winning his parents old seat of Karad to the Lok sabha. He went on to win the seat thrice, in 1991, 1996 and 1998 but lost in 1999.[5]
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He served as a Minister of State for the ministries ofMinistry of Science and Technology,Ministry of Earth Sciences,Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions,Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and in charge of Prime Minister's Office. Earlier he also served as the Minister of State in charge of the Department of Atomic Energy. Chavan replacedAshok Chavan as chief minister after the latter's involvement in theAdarsh Housing Society scam forced him to resign. Reasons for his choice reported by the media included the perception that he had a "clean image" and that he did not have his own faction of political supporters within the state.[6][7][8] He was elected as MLC after Sanjay Satishchandra Dutt vacated his seat.
One of his first actions as Chief Minister was to play a role along with Civil Aviation ministerPraful Patel, in convincingJairam Ramesh, the Minister for Environment And Forests in obtaining environmental clearance for the planned second airport in Mumbai,Navi Mumbai International Airport.[9]
Chavan married Satvasheela on 16 December 1976. They have a daughter, Ankita and a son named Jai. Ankita married on 29 November 2013 in Delhi.
The new CM belongs to the Maratha community and he made his entry into the Lok Sabha in 1991 from Karad.
| Preceded by | Chief Minister of Maharashtra 11 Nov 2010 – 26 September 2014 | Succeeded by President`s Rule |
