Ashokrao Shankarrao Chavan is an Indian Maharashtra politician and a senior member of the Indian National Congress; however, on February 13, 2024, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and served as several cabinet ministers.
Wiki/Biography
Ashokrao Shankarrao Chavan was born on Tuesday, October 28, 1958, in Nanded district, Maharashtra (age 65; as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Scorpio. He completed his schooling from St. Xavier’s High School, Bombay Fort in 1975. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Hazarimal Jomani College. He then pursued his Masters in Business Management from BYK Business School, Pune.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Weight (approximately): 70kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Ashok Chavan’s father Shankarrao Chavan served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra twice. He served as India’s Finance Minister from 1988 to 1989 and as India’s Home Minister (twice) in the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet. His mother’s name is Kusumbai Shankarrao Chavan.
Ashok Chavan and his parents
wife and children
In 1982, Ashok Chavan married politician Ameeta Chavan. In 2014, she was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Pokkal constituency. The couple has twin daughters Srijaya and Sujaya.
Ashok Chavan with his wife (far left) and daughter
religion
Ashok Chavan believes in Hinduism.
#watch | Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Congress leader Ashok Chavan offers prayers at the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. pic.twitter.com/w6P0FyDzEo
— ANI (@ANI) February 1, 2024
address
1-2-163, Anand Nilayam, Shivaji Nagar, District. South Germany – 431602
sign
Ashok Chavan’s signature
Profession
Member of the People’s House of Representatives
In 1987, Ashok Chavan contested the by-election from the Nanded Lok Sabha constituency on behalf of the Indian National Congress and defeated his nearest rival PY Ambedkar by 1,11,118 votes. In 2014, he won the Indian National Congress seat by defeating DB Patil of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 81,455 votes and was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Nanded constituency in Maharashtra. In 2019, he contested the Lok Sabha election from the Nanded constituency in Maharashtra as a candidate of the Indian National Congress, but lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Pratap Rao Patil Chihari Card.
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
In 1992, he was elected as an MLC member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. In March 1993, he was appointed Minister of State for Public Works, Urban Development and Home Affairs. In 1999, he was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Mudkhed constituency on an Indian National Congress ticket. From 1999 to 2003, he served as Minister of Revenue and Protocol in the Verasrao Deshmukh cabinet. From January 2003 to November 2004, he held the posts of Cooperation, Marathi, Public Health and Family Welfare, Industries, Health, School Education, Water Supply under the Sushil Kumar Shinde government in Maharashtra , protocol and other heads of departments.
Ashok Chavan chairs cabinet meeting on Maratha reservation
From 2004 to 2008, he served as Minister of Industry, Textiles and Mining, Marathi Ministry. The Second Vilasrao Deshmukh Ministry is responsible for the welfare of servicemen and state border protection. He served as the leader of the House of Representatives of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from December 8, 2008 to November 10, 2010. In 2009, he was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Pokkal constituency on the ticket of the Indian National Congress. He was subsequently re-elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Pokar constituency in 2014 and 2019. On December 30, 2019, he took over as Minister of Public Works (excluding Public Utilities) Department in the Uddhav Thackeray government.
Ashok Chavan and Baba Siddique as Public Development Ministers
Party positions held
In 1986, he was appointed as the Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Maharashtra State Congress Committee. Subsequently, he served as the Secretary General of the Maharashtra State Congress Committee from 1995 to 1999. In 2015, he took over as the Chairman of Maharashtra State Congress Committee. From August 2023 to February 2024, he will serve as a member of the Conference Working Committee (CWC).
chief minister
On December 8, 2008, Deshmukh resigned in the aftermath of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and Ashok Chavan replaced Vilasrao Deshmukh as Maharaja. Chief Minister of Strah. On November 7, 2009, he was sworn in as the 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
dispute
Adarsh housing society scam
Adarsh Housing Society is a thirty-one apartment building located in Colaba, Mumbai. Initially, the building was meant to be a residence for Kargil War veterans and their spouses. However, the people living in the complex are relatives of bureaucrats and politicians who have nothing to do with the Kargil conflict. Three flats in the Adarsh Housing Society are said to be owned by the mother-in-law of then Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan. RTI information revealed that Chavan approved the sale of 40% of the houses to common people. On November 7, 2009, he resigned as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra following allegations of corruption following the Adarsh Housing Society scam. In December 2013, the then Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan refused to approve the prosecution of Chavan.
The Sessions court later refused to remove his name from the list of defendants in the case. The Bombay High Court upheld the court’s decision in 2015. In 2016, Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao allowed the CBI to prosecute Chavan. However, Chavan moved the Bombay High Court to overturn the ruling. The Bombay High Court on December 22, 2017 overturned the Governor’s decision and ruled that Chavan should not be charged in the case.
Abuse of election expenses
In 2009, Madhavrao Kinhalkar, a former minister in the Maharashtra government, claimed in a complaint filed with the ECI that Chavan spent huge amounts of money during the 2009 assembly elections but did not disclosed this expenditure in his affidavit. Kinhalkar said that while Chavan’s accounts showed an expenditure of Rs 5,379 on newspaper advertisements, Chavan spent crores of rupees on sponsored news. In 2014, Chavan was found guilty by the Election Commission (EC) for providing it with false information about election expenditure.
Corruption case
In 2013, Kirit Somaiya had accused Ashok Chavan of separating the mining portfolio from the industries ministry and keeping it in his hands for personal gain. Other senior BJP officials further claimed that Chavan had reduced the advance payment required by private players on mining lease amounts from 50 per cent to 10 per cent. In an interview, Somaiya while accusing Chavan of corruption said,
The Maharashtra government has procured seven coal blocks from the central government. While the state government retained three coal blocks for power generation, the other four blocks were transferred to the Maharashtra State Mining Corporation (MSMC) and subsequently allotted to private players. The scam amounted to Rs 375 crore. Chavan suggested that two coal blocks be allotted to Gupta Steel, against which the Center has filed an FIR. ”
land encroachment
In June 2015, RTI activist Digambar Pajgade filed a complaint before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Yavatmal alleging that the Jawaharlal Darda Education Society was encroaching on an open public space in Yavatmal. The complaint alleges that in the early 1990s, the education association built a huge compound wall and an English school on about 1,000 square meters of land owned by plot owners in the area for utility purposes. The decision of the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Yavatmal to declare the encroachment illegal was challenged by Chavan and others and was later rejected by a division bench of Nagpur Justices AB Chaudhari and PN Deshmukh of the Bombay High Court.
Illegal use of petrol pumps
He was accused of nepotism at the beginning of his political career for distributing petrol pumps to relatives. In 1993, the Supreme Court canceled the petrol pump allotment to Chavan’s uncle’s son-in-law.
Criminal case against Ashok Chavan
- Charges related to forgery with intent to cheat (Section 468 IPC)
- Charges relating to possession of a document under Section 466 or 467, knowing that the document is forged and intending to use it as a genuine document (Section 474 IPC)
- Charges related to falsification of court records or public registers, etc. (Section 466 IPC)
- Charges related to criminal conspiracy penalty (Section 120B IPC)
- Charges related to use of forged documents or electronic records as authentic documents (Section 471 IPC)
- Charges related to Penalty for Criminal Trespass (Section 447 IPC)
- Charges relating to violation of law by a public servant with intent to cause harm to any person (Section 166 IPC)
- Charges relating to conduct committed by several persons in furtherance of common intention (Section 34 IPC)
car collection
He owns 2 Mahindra vans, 1 Bolero Maxi Truck Plus and 1 Mahindra pickup truck.
assets/property
movable property
Cash: Rs. 4,83,465
Deposits with banks, financial institutions and non-banking financial companies: Rs. 1,25,00,000
Corporate bonds, debentures and shares: Rs. 52,000
Jewelry: Rs. 48,00,000
real estate
Agricultural land: Rs. 2,00,00,000
Non-agricultural land: Rs. 4,30,00,000
Commercial Buildings: Rs. 1,97,00,000
Residential Building: Rs. 11,50,00,000
Note: The estimates given are based on 2019. Assets owned by his wife and minor dependents are not included.
net worth
As of 2019, Ashok Chavan’s net worth is estimated to be over Rs 50 crore.
Facts/Trivia
- Ashok Chavan started his political career as a student wing leader of Pune University.
- After the Congress-NCP victory in the 2009 Maharashtra Assembly elections, the NCP was said to have opposed Chavan’s appointment as chief minister and suggested Sushil Kumar Shinde to replace him. However, AICC president Sonia Gandhi sided with Chavan.
Ashok Chavan and Sonia Gandhi
- On February 12, 2024, he resigned from the Congress ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections after senior leaders like Baba Siddique and Milind Deora also left the party resigned as key members and resigned as provincial councilors.
- On February 13, 2024, Ashok Chavan joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Devendra Fadnavis. In an interview, while talking about his joining the BJP, he said:
Today, I have resigned as a Congress MP and all other party positions. I have severed all ties with the party. I have no complaints and I worked honestly for the party until yesterday. I was born to be a Congressman. I had been involved with Congress for a long time and felt I should explore some options, so I decided to withdraw. Today around 12 to 12:30, I will start a new journey in my political career and I will join the Bharatiya Janata Party. “
Ashok Chavan (far right) officially joins BJP
- Ashok Chavan is an authorized LPG dealer and is involved in various other businesses. Chavan and his family own a majority stake in Nanded Sugar Mills.
- In his spare time, he likes to play table tennis, read and travel.
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