Jayant Patil

Jayant Rajaram Patil (born 16 February 1962) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra; he has been representing Islampur seat in the state assembly for more than two decades now. Currently he is Cabinet Minister of the Water Resources Department in Uddhav Thakare's cabinet. He was the Cabinet Minister of Rural Development in Prithviraj Chavan cabinet (from 2009 to 2014), as well as Finance Minister (from 1999 to 2008) and Home Minister (from 2008 to 2009) of Maharashtra state.

Jayant Patil
Cabinet Minister Government of Maharashtra
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 November 2019
Chief Minister	Uddhav Thackeray
Ministry	Water Resources and Command Area Development
In office 17 October 1999 – 6 December 2008
Minister	Finance
Chief Minister	Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushilkumar Shinde, Ashok Chavan
Preceded by	Eknath Khadse
Succeeded by	Dilip Walse-Patil
In office 8 December 2008 – 9 November 2009
Minister	Home
Chief Minister	Ashok Chavan
Preceded by	R. R. Patil
Succeeded by	R. R. Patil
In office 9 November 2009 – 30 October 2014
Minister	Rural Development
Chief Minister	Prithviraj Chavan
Preceded by	R. R. Patil
Succeeded by	Pankaja Munde
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Preceded by	office established
Constituency	Islampur
In office 1990–2009
Preceded by	Rajarambapu Patil
Succeeded by	office abolished
Constituency	Walva
Personal details
Born	16 February 1962
Occupation	Politician

Jayant Patil is a son of late Rajarambapu Patil. After the sudden Death of Rajarambapu Patil in 1984, Jayant Patil returned from the USA where he was pursuing his higher Education

After returning to his home town he preferred not contest any parliamentary election immediately and became the chairman of cooperative sugar factory. After working around six years in the overall development of the Sangli area, Patil was given a ticket to contest the state assembly election from Walwa Islampur constituency. He has represented Islampur Walwa constituency 6 times that is 27 years.[1][2]

He was finance minister of Maharashtra from October 1999 to December 2008 in Congress and Nationalist Congress Party government.

In the aftermath of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, R. R. Patil had to resign, which was then accepted by the party and Patil was elected as Home Minister of Maharashtra in Ashok Chavan cabinet.[3][4] as a Home Minister of Maharashtra Patil played a highly crucial role in modernising the Maharashtra Police. Patil, established the Force 1 and gave highly modern weapons to the police.

Like other Congress and NCP leaders in Maharashtra he owns education institutes and cooperative bodies 1.Rajarambapu Institute of Technology (RIT), Sangli 2.Cooperative Milk Federation popularly known as Krishna Dudh 3.Sugar factories 4.Rajarambapu Textile park 5.Rajarambapu sahkari bank Limited( Scheduled bank) 6.Kasegaon Education Society 7.Food Processing units

Patil is currently working as Leader of NCP in Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha.

In April 2018, he was elected as state president (chief) of the Nationalist Congress Party in the place of former state chief Sunil Tatkare.

References

1. Ghoge, Ketaki (13 November 2010). "Who will be the next home minister?". Hindustan Times. Mumbai. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
2. Khapre, Shubhangi (19 November 2010). "Maharashtra portfolios: Ajit Pawar gets finance". Mumbai RIT college, employee experience?: Daily News & Analysis. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
3. "NCP leaders get Home, Finance ministry". Rediff. 8 December 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
4. "Ashok Chavan named Maharashtra CM". Rediff. 5 December 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2017.

Preceded by Eknath Khadse	Finance Minister 17 October 1999 – 6 December 2008	Succeeded by Dilip Walse-Patil
Preceded by R. R. Patil	Home Minister 8 December 2008 – 9 November 2009	Succeeded by R. R. Patil
Preceded by Vijaysingh Mohite-Patil	Rural Development Minister 9 November 2009 – 30 October 2014	Succeeded by Pankaja Munde