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Girish Mahajan
Cabinet Minister Government of Maharashtra
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 December 2024
Governor	C. P. Radhakrishnan
Cabinet	Third Fadnavis ministry
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Deputy CM	Eknath Shinde Ajit Pawar
Guardian Minister	NA
Minister of Rural Development Government of Maharashtra
In office 9 August 2022 – 26 November 2024
Chief Minister	Eknath Shinde
Preceded by	Hasan Mushrif
Minister of Medical Education Government of Maharashtra
In office 9 August 2022 – 14 July 2023
Chief Minister	Eknath Shinde
Preceded by	Amit Deshmukh
Succeeded by	Hasan Mushrif
In office 10 July 2016 – 8 November 2019
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Preceded by	Vinod Tawde
Succeeded by	Amit Deshmukh
Minister of Water Resources Government of Maharashtra
In office 5 December 2014 – 8 November 2019
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Preceded by	Sunil Tatkare
Succeeded by	Jayant Patil
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 1995
Preceded by	Dattatray Mahajan
Constituency	Jamner
Personal details
Born	(1960-05-17) 17 May 1960 (age 64) Jamner, Maharashtra, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Sadhana Mahajan
Parent	Dattatray Mahajan (father)

Girish Dattatray Mahajan is a politician from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. He is the current MLA of Jamner taluka representing Jamner vidhan sabha constituency. He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. Girish Mahajan is the Rural development minister of Maharashtra state.

In 2010s, CM Devendra Fadnavis' cabinet he served as Minister of Water Resources and Minister Medical Education of Maharashtra in separate times.

Early life

Mahajan was born in Jamner into a Marathi Leva Patidar family.

Career

As a college student, Mahajan was an active member of ABVP in 1978. In the ABVP, he started as a grassroots worker where he painted walls and distributed promotional posters for politicians. He was appointed Taluka President of ABVP.

Mahajan's political career commenced in earnest in the early eighties, when he became Taluka President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (youth wing of the BJP) in Maharashtra.

In 1992, Mahajan was elected as a Gram-Panchayat election for Jamner. In 1995 he was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the first time. He served his 5th term as MLA as of 2014. Mahajan was sworn in as the Minister of Water Resources of Maharashtra on 31 October 2014. His government won a confidence motion by oral vote on 12 November 2014 allowing it to continue to govern.

As of 29 August 2023, he is serving as the Minister of Rural Development of the state in CM Eknath Shinde's cabinet.

Positions held

Ministerial

Legislative

Within BJP

• President, BJYM Jamner Taluka (1988-1990).
• Vice President, BJP Maharashtra (1993-1995).
• District Chairman, BJP, Jalgaon (2006).
• Party Pratod. BJP Legislature Party, Maharashtra State (2008).
• Region Vice President, BJP, Maharashtra Pradesh (2011).

See also

• Girish Mahjan Website Archived 1 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine
• Jamner
• Jamner Railway Station
• Jamner Vidhansabha Constituency

References

1. ^ "खाशाबंचा जन्मदिवस आता राज्य-क्रीडा दिवस" [Khashaba's birthday now on 'State's sports day'.]. Lokmat. p. 7. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
2. Gangan, Surendra P (1 April 2015). "Girish Mahajan not new to controversies". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
3. "Politician". indianpoliticians.net.
4. "Minister Water Resources & CAD Mantralaya(Mumbai)". www.mahahp.gov.in.

6.https://cmo.maharashtra.gov.in/en/governor-and-cabinet-ministers

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