Girish Bapat

The Honourable Girish Bapat


Minister of Food,Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Food and Drugs Administration Parliamentary Affairs Government of Maharashtra
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 October 2014
Governor	C.V. Rao
Member of Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office October 2014
Constituency	Kasba Peth,Pune
Personal details
Born	(1963-09-03) 3 September 1963 Pune, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Occupation	Politician
Religion	Hinduism
Website	www.mahabjp.org/Eng/BjpBadal/Cabinet.aspx

Girish Bapat (born 3 September 1963) is the Cabinet Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Food and Drugs Administration, Parliamentary Affairs in Government of Maharashtra^[1]^[2] & Member of 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. One on top Bhartiya Janata Party Leader in Vidhansabha. He represents consecutive 5 Terms from Kasba Peth Constituency since 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014.^[3]

Political career

Initially started working with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh. In 1978 emergency arrested and sent in jail. He was appointed as Secretary BJP Pune City in 1980. Elected in Pune Municipal Corporation by-election in 1983 and win 3 terms. He was also appointed as Standing Committee Chairman of Pune Municipal Corporation in 1986-87. First time elected as Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 1995. Then he appointed as Director of Krishna Khore Vikas Mahamandal in 1997.

Positions held

Within BJP

Secretary, BJP Pune (1980)
President, BJP Pune (2006)

Legislative

Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly - consecutive 5 Terms since 1995
Chairman , Pune Municipal Corporation Standing Committee (1986–87)

References

Political offices
Preceded by Anil Deshmukh	Cabinet Minister for Food & Civil Supplies, Maharashtra State 31 October 2014–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Manohar Naik	Cabinet Minister for Food & Drug Administration, Maharashtra State 31 October 2014–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Ajit Pawar	Maharashtra State Guardian Minister for Pune district December 2014–present	Incumbent

Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	B. S. Yeddyurappa Bandaru Dattatreya Om Prakash Mathur Parsottambhai Rupala Raghubar Das Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Satyapal Singh Malik Prabhat Jha Kiran Maheshwari Dinesh Sharma Renu Devi Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Anandiben Patel Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Nalin Kohli Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha

Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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