As back-room maneuver for occupying ministerial birth intensifies in Maharashtra, Chandrakant Patil has emerged as the front-runner for the Ministry of Co-operation. In all likelihood Mr Patil will be the minister of cooperation in the new government in Maharashtra.
He hails from Kolhapur and has risen from humble origins to become a prominent leader in the BJP. His father was an ordinary worker in Bombay dockyard.
The sources in the BJP said that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis might keep both finance and home portfolios with himself. Also, the government will not have a deputy CM’s post, which was earlier demanded by the Sena.
Mr Fadnavis is likely to keep all important portfolios of the state government with him, including home and urban development, irrigation, transport and power until the next Cabinet expansion.
Other important departments like revenue and finance are likely to be distributed between senior ministers Eknath Khadse and Sudhir Mungantiwar, BJP sources said.
Chandrakant Patil’s political career began panning out when he joined ABVP the student organization of the BJP during his university days. He worked for the AVP for several years and finally landed an important role as general secretary of the organization. It was his excellent work as a student leader that propelled him to the prominence in the party.
“Chandrakant Patil, an MLC, has been given co-operation, marketing and textiles. He will also handle the public works (including public undertakings) department.”
Let s hope that the first named department creates more interest in the heart of new Minister and sort out the MESS in Election and other buraucratic hassels the earlier dispensation refused to bring down.
First of all we would like him to act on the mess created by administrators of Rupee co operative bank in which all the hard earned money of citizens are blocked due to miss deeds of currupt politicians. These politicians were using the co operative bank money as their own property putting the innocent account holders and depositors in soup. Hope now being an honest Minister now he will do justice in this regards. Request to Mr Patil that make a system that in future no politician can utilise the poor invester’s money in this way. It is since 2 years now, not a single Rupee can be utilised by the account holder for their emergencies because of stringent restrictions by RBI. What a irony that the culprits are moving and enjoying at the cost of honest investers even when regular audits are done through RBI to protect the interests of investers and account holders.Hope that justice will be provided to investers and depositors and all their hard earned money will be back to them with all the interest due to him.