Madan Madhukarrao Yerawar

Madan Madhukarrao Yerawar is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Yavatmal Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been a former member of the Assembly from Yavatmal.[1][2] His victory was amongst the five seats won by the BJP, that resulted in the Indian National Congress (INC) not being able to win a single seat in Yavatmal district once its stronghold.[3] He is a stakeholder in Chintamani Agrotech a company involved in power generation in Yavatmal, a company that had Nitin Gadkari as one of its directors.[1] He is considered as a "protege'" of Gadkari, and the 2014 contest had been considered as a "prestige issue" for Gadkari and Ajit Pawar whose mentee Sandeep Bajoria was pitted against him.[4]


References

  1. 1 2 Jain, Sreenivasan (2012-05-19). "Vidarbha: The Lie of the Land". NDTV. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". India Today. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  3. ↑ Abraham, T. O. (2014-10-19). "Congress routed in Yavatmal dist". Times of India. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  4. ↑ Abraham, T. O. (2014-10-12). "Yavatmal and Arni are prestige issue for Cong, BJP, NCP". Times of India. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
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