Kunal Rohidas Patil

Kunal Rohidas Patil is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.He is a two time MLA . He represents the Dhule Rural Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Indian National Congress.[1] He is the son of Indian National Congress leader and former minister[2] Rohidas Patil.[3] Patil has been chairman of Shivaji Vidya Prasarak Sanstha, an over hundred year old educational institution[4] based in Dhule.[5]

On 22 March 2017, Patil was suspended along with 18 other MLAs until 31 December for interrupting Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar during a state budget session and burning copies of the budget outside the assembly four days earlier.[6] He won the Dhule Rural constituency in 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections by 14564 votes against BJP candidate Dnyanjyoti Patil.

References
  1. "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". India Today. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  2. "Lobbying for MLC seat in Cong; Rohidas Patil, Sanjay Dutt in race". The Indian Express. 30 October 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  3. "6 Mumbai Corporators, 3 Council members make it to Maharashtra Assembly". The Economic Times. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  4. Maharashtra (India); Maharashtra (India). Gazetteers Dept (1974). Maharashtra State Gazetteers: Dhulia. Director of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, Maharashtra State. p. 779.
  5. "रोहिदास पाटील यांच्याविरोधात फसवणुकीचा गुन्हा दाखल". IBN-Lokmat (in Marathi). 7 March 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  6. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/maharashtra-assembly-ruckus-speaker-suspends-19-mlas-till-december-31/
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