Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil

Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil
Chairman, Karnataka Milk Federation, Belgaum
Incumbent
Assumed office
2014
Chairman , Mahakali educational charitable society
Incumbent
Assumed office
1978
Chairman, Phoenix Public School
Incumbent
Assumed office
1988
Personal details
Born 16 June 1956
Solapur, India
Nationality Indian
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Relations Pranay Vivek Patil (son)
V.L. Patil (Father)
Residence Belgaum, India
Alma mater St. Peters school, Panchgani
Religion Hindu

Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil (born 1956) is an Indian politician, educationalist, author and an industrialist. Born in Solapur, he is the son of V.L. Patil, a politician and freedom fighter. Vivekrao is the father of a renowned Indian politician Pranay Vivek Patil. He completed his MBA from Chatrapati Shivaji University, Kolhapur.

He was unanimously elected director of the Karnataka milk federation and then immediately elected unanimously as the chairman. Vivekrao is a member of the Belgaum chamber of commerce. He was also the chairman of the Raibag sugar factory and the Belgaum District Co-operative bank. He is a B.J.P. Strongman in the state. He has got various ministers elected under him. He also runs a chain of over 30 educational institutions in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa. He among other things has written various novels. One of them Dawn to Dust was a best selling romantic tragedy novel in Europe and India. A Bollywood movie (Dhadkan) was based on it.

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