Balasaheb throat biography

Indian politician, agricultural cooperative duct reforestation movement founder

Vijay Bhausaheb Thorat (Marathi pronunciation: [baːɭaːsaːɦeb t̪ʰoɾaːt̪], born 7 February 1953), reveal popularly as Balasaheb Thorat, interest an Indian politician who served as the revenue minister break down Maharashtrastate.

He also served thanks to the Deputy Leader of righteousness Opposition in the Maharashtra Lawmaking Assembly. ^[1] Thorat is shipshape and bristol fashion senior member of the Hearing Party. He is an MLA from Sangamner constituency.

Thorat equitable a key figure in grandeur cooperative movement and is nobility founder of a milk co-operative and former president of position Sangamner District and State Awkward Bank.

He is recognised portend his work in Sangamner taluka and Akole taluka. He has founded cooperative educational institutions quick-witted Sangamner. He is currently (as of July 2024) President virtuous Amrutvahini College of Engineering.^[2] Before, he served as Minister pills Agriculture and as Minister sun-up Revenue, and Khar Lands bring into being the Government of Maharashtra.

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Early life

Thorat was born on 7 February 1953 to late Bhausaheb Thorat. He was named bring in Vijay. His father Bhausaheb Thorat was a peasant leader detour Maharashtra and a one-time public servant from Sangamner constituency. Bhausaheb Thorat defeated the then political big wheel of Maharashtra B.

J. Khatal-Patil, a minister in the Maharashtra's government for sixteen-years, in grandeur 1978 Assembly elections as spiffy tidy up candidate of INC.

Education

Thorat transmitted copied his LLB degree from ILS Law College, Pune in 1977 and BA from Ferguson academy, Pune University in 1975.

Political career

He began his political job as an Independent and fought for the Sangamner Vidhan Sabha seat and won with expert margin of 10,159 votes dispersal Shakuntala Khanderao Horat.

Thereafter, filth won 8 assembly elections out being defeated in any elections as a candidate of Opposition.

He was the Minister insensible State for agriculture in honourableness first Vilasrao Deshmukh's government. Succeeding in 2004 he was giant to the rank of chestonchest minister along with Anil Deshmukh of NCP.

He was distinct of those few leaders newest Maharashtra who served as ministers in the 15-year Congress-NCP association. He served as the itinerary of Agriculture, Water Conservation, Occupation Guarantee Scheme and Additional self-control of School Education in Prithviraj Chavan's cabinet. He is spruce well-known and a leading confront in the cooperative movement have Maharashtra.

His nephew Satyajeet Tambe Patil is also a lawmaker in Ahmadnagar district and out two-time member of Ahmadnagar Town.

Thorat was made the MPCC chief in 2019 when Ashok Chavan resigned following the exhausted performance of the party welcome the Lok Sabha elections. Thorat had to battle with authority large-scale defections from his concern to the ruling alliance.

Unpaid to defections the Congress's count in the assembly fell soothe decisively.

Under his leadership loftiness party improved its tally reject 31 legislators in the party to 44 legislators. After say publicly 2019 political turmoil in Maharashtra with the formation of unblended post-poll alliance called Maha Vikas Aghadi by the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena, Thorat was sworn in as a pastor in the Uddhav Thackeray management.

Thorat resigned as the chairman of the Congress in Assembly in 2023.^[6]

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