Sudhir Mungantiwar is a former president of the Maharashtra unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was Cabinet Minister for Finance, Planning and Forests in the Government of Maharashtra from October 2014 to November 2019, and Minister for Forests, Fisheries and Cultural Affairs from August 2022 to November 2024. He has represented Ballarpur in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly since 2009.

Early Life Career

He was born into a doctor’s family on 30 July 1962 in Chandrapur district in the Vidarbha.His father is Dr Sacchidanad Mungantiwar is famous Physicist in chanda. His wife’s name is Sapna & has daughter named Shalaka.

He started his public life at the age of seventeen when he was appointed as Secretary of Chaatrasangh Sardar Patel Mahavidyalaya in 1979. He was appointed the secretary of BJP in 2014 from Partur. In 1989 and 1991 he unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections from Chandrapur. In 1993, he was appointed as Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Youth Movement’s state unit.He was elected MLA from Chandrapur thrice and in 2009. He set a record, winning for the first time in 1995 with a margin of 55,000 votes. He served as the Minister for Tourism and Consumer Protection Department during the Shiv Sena-BJP saffron alliance. In 1998, he was appointed General Secretary of BJP’s state unit. In 1998, he received the best orator’s award for his performance . In 1999, he was made a minister in the Sena-BJP government.In 1999 and 2004, he was reelected from Partur. In the October 2009 elections, he contested and was elected for the fourth time.

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