Eknath Shinde is an Indian politician who was sworn in as the 20th Chief Minister of Maharashtra on June 30, 2022.
Wiki/Biography
Eknath Shinde was born on Sunday, February 9, 1964, in Mumbai (age 60 years 2024). His zodiac sign is Aquarius. He completed his 11th class in 1981 from Thanamangala High School and Junior College. He also studied at Thane Municipal Corporation School, Kisan Nagar and Rajendra Pal Mangla Hindi High School, Thane. In 2014, he entered politics after becoming a minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena government. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the Yashwanttra Ochavan Open University in Maharashtra. His main subjects were Marathi and politics.
Young Eknath Shinde
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′6″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father’s name is Sambhaji Navlu Shinde.
Eknath Shinde’s parents
His mother’s name was Gangubai Sambhaji Shinde and she passed away on April 18, 2019.
Photo of Eknath Shinde’s mother
His brother, Prakash Sambhaji Shinde, is a councilor in the Thane Municipal Corporation.
Eknath Shinde poses with his family
wife and children
His wife Lata Eknath Shinde is in the construction industry. The couple has a son named Shrikant Shinde, who is a politician and plastic surgeon. Dr. Shrikant Shinde contested the Lok Sabha elections from Kalyan constituency in 2014 and was elected as MP, defeating his rival NCP candidate Anand Paranjape. His two children, son Dipesh Shinde and daughter Shubhada Shinde, died on June 2, 2000.
Eknath Shinde and his family
address
He resides at Bungalow No. 5 & 6, Landmark Society, Louiswadi Service Road, Thane-400604, Maharashtra.
Profession
Eknath Shinde dropped out of school after studying till eleventh grade to support his family. In the 1980s, while he was in the autorickshaw driving business, he was introduced to Shivsena supremo Bal Thackeray and Shivsena’s Thane district chief Anand Dighe, who helped him join the Shiv Sena.
Eknath Shinde and Anand Dighe
Soon after joining the Shiv Sena, he was elected Shakha Pramukh from Kisan Nagar in 1980.
Eknath Shinde plays Shakha Pramukh in Kisan Nagar
He then began launching numerous political and social rallies focusing on issues such as inflation, black marketing, and businessmen hoarding essential goods such as palm oil. He was detained by the police for forty days for participating in a rally in Maharashtra. – Karnataka border riots. In 1997, he was appointed as Corporate Director of Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC). In 2001, he was nominated as TMC House Leader and served till 2004. After the death of Anand Dighe, he was appointed as the director of Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC). In 2001, he served as the chief minister of Thane district. Under the guidance of Eknath Shinde, the Shiv Sena gradually captured Thane Municipal Corporation, Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation, Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation, Bhiwandi Municipal Corporation , Ambarnath Municipal Council and Bhadrapur Municipal Council rajah. In 2004, Bal Thackeray gave him the opportunity to participate in the assembly elections and he was elected as a provincial councilor from the Thane Legislative Assembly constituency with a huge vote advantage.
Eknath Shinde and Balasaheb Thackeray
In 2005, the Shiv Sena appointed him as Thane district commissioner. He won consecutive Legislative Assembly elections in 2009, 2014 and 2019 and was appointed leader of the Shiv Sena legislative party and leader of the opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly. Eknath Shinde was appointed as Public Works Minister in December 2019. He has also been given the additional charge of Chairman, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC). In 2019, he was appointed as the health minister of Maharashtra, and soon he was recognized for filling 890 posts of MBBS doctors and specialists in various hospitals, enacting regulations for payment of salaries to contract workers under the national health scheme, setting up sub-district hospitals of dialysis centres, 60 dispensaries have been authorized under the ‘Balasaheb Thackeray Aapla Dawakhana’ scheme. He also founded the Mahavir Jain Hospital in Hajuri, Thane, in joint venture with the Thane Municipal Corporation and an NGO called Jito.
Mattoshree Gangubai Sambhaji Shinde Hospital
In 2019, he was appointed as the Minister of Public Works (Public Utilities) Department and also held the charge of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. On June 30, 2022, he was sworn in as the 20th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Governor (centre), CM Eknath Shinde (left) and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis (right) stand at attention during the playing of the national anthem in the background at Raj Bhavan on June 30, 2022
assets/property
movable property
- Bank Deposit: Rs. 32,64,760
- Bonds, Bonds and Equity: Rs. 30,591
- LIC or other insurance policy: Rs. 50,08,930
- Personal Loan/Advance: Rs. 1,89,247
- Motor Vehicles: Rs. 46,55,490
- Other assets: Rs. 50,44,948
real estate
- Agricultural land: Rs. 28,00,000
- Commercial Buildings: Rs. 30,00,000
- Residential Building: Rs. 8,87,50,000
Liabilities: Rs. 3,74,60,261
net worth
As of 2019, Eknath Shinde had approx Rs. Net worth 7.82 billion rupees.
Facts/Trivia
- His full name is Eknath Sambhaji Shinde.
- On June 2, 2000, Eknath Shinde came to Satara with his 11-year-old son Dipesh and 7-year-old daughter Shubhada. Two of his children drowned while on a boat trip.
Eknath Shinde’s children Dipesh Shinde and Shubhada Shinde
- He remains very active on various social media platforms. On Instagram, he is followed by more than 164,000 people. More than 401,000 people follow his Facebook page. He frequently posts images and videos on social media from political rallies and campaign events.
- During his appointment as Leader of Opposition, he kept raising national issues such as cluster development plan of dilapidated illegal buildings in Thane and MMR, Thane Metro Rail, new extension of Thane Station between Thane and Mulund, water scarcity, Coastal security, etc. Modernization of the state, police forces, inflation, increase in national debt, etc.
- Some major projects in Thane district, such as cluster development and Thane Metro, are authorized by the Sindh government. Shinde regularly provides rehabilitation policies on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Thane residents who have been made homeless due to illegal construction.
- According to some media sources, on one occasion, Eknath Shinde was caught driving an electric car at a speed of 137 kilometers per hour on the Samrudhi Highway.
- MSRDC is the Mumbai-Pune Expressway project launched in 1996 to encourage road development in the state. The first expressway of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, two flyovers in Mumbai and the Bandra-Worli sea link in Mumbai are being constructed under this scheme. However, soon after the Congress government came to power in 1999, the project lagged behind due to some political reasons. Later, when the Shive Sena came to power in Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde was appointed in charge of the MSRDC unit. In the next five years, under Shinde’s management, many large projects such as Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway (Samrudhhi Expressway), Mumbai-Pune Expressway expansion, Vashitana Bay Third Bridge, Bandra- Versova Sea-Link, laneization and concretization of six-roads, 27 rail flight pools in Vidarbha, Thane-Borivli Metro, Versova-Virar Sea-Link and Gaymukh-Fountain hotel-Ghodbundar high-level routes have been realized.
- At least 177 Shiv Sena leaders, including Eknath Shinde, on the occasion of Bakrid at Durgadi Fort in 2013 In protest, Muslims were allowed to sacrifice Namaz there. The protests demand that Hindus, who have been performing rituals at the fort for years, get permission from Namaz to stop worshiping Hindus on the occasion of Bakrid. During the protest, Eknath Shinde was arrested along with 177 leaders for protesting against the permission of Namaz.
After Eknath Shinde was arrested by police in 2013
- When he was appointed as the corporate director of the Thane Municipal Corporation, Shinde took several steps, including authorizing the erection of metal beam crash barriers and wire rope railings along the roads and painting them in the center of the road, across the highway and on the Rambler Apply thermoplastic coatings, etc. to ensure road safety. Reduce road accidents on the Mumbai to Pune speeding route.
- Eknath Shinde and his son Shrikant Shinde set up a strawberry factory in Mahakaleshwar, Madhya Pradesh on November 22, 2020 to produce strawberries using modern technology.
Eknath Shinde while planting strawberry seeds
- On June 21, 2022, Eknath Shinde was expelled from the Shiv Sena. Soon after being expelled from the party, Shinde took to Twitter to say that he was Balasaheb’s stalwart Shiv Sainik and had never cheated anyone out of greed for power. He wrote,
We are the stalwart Shiv Sainiks of Balasaheb. Balasaheb taught us about Hinduism. We will learn from the thoughts of Balasaheb and Dharamveer Anand Dhighe Saheb that we have never and will never cheat for the sake of power. “
- A day after taking office as the 20th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, he changed his Twitter account’s avatar to Bal Thackeray.
- On March 13, 2024, the nameplate outside his office in south Mumbai changed. Now, it reads “Eknath Gangubai Sambhaji Shinde” with his mother’s name before his father’s. This happened because of a new rule in Maharashtra, according to which from May 1, 2024, all government documents must contain the name of the mother of a child born on or after that date. Other leaders like Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar have done the same.
Eknath Shinde (right), Devendra Fadnavis (centre) and Ajit Pawar (left) show off their new nameplate
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