Raosaheb Shekhawat

Raosaheb Shekhawat (born Rajendrasingh Shekhawat, also spelled Rajendra Singh Shekhawat)[1] is a politician in the Indian state of Maharashtra. He is a former Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Amravati constituency of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

Raosaheb Shekhawat
Member of Legislative Assembly
In office
2009-2014
Preceded bySunil Deshmukh
Succeeded bySunil Deshmukh
ConstituencyAmravati
Personal details
Political partyIndian National Congress
ParentsPratibha Patil (mother)
Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat (father)

Family

Raosaheb Shekhawat is the son of Pratibha Patil, the former President of India, and Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, a former MLA and First Mayor of Amravati.[2] He has a sister.[3]

Politics

Shekhawat, who has a son and a daughter, was a car dealer in Mumbai from 1990 until he became a politician.[4] Prior to being elected to the state legislature in 2009, Shekhawat had worked for the Indian National Congress (INC) for a decade. He had been vice-president of the Amravati District Congress Committee and secretary of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee, as well as having involvement with the Seva Dal and Youth Congress.[5] He had been looking for an opportunity to be elected since 2004.[4]

Shekhawat won the Amravati Vidhan Sabha seat in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections. Standing as a candidate of the INC, he defeated the incumbent, Sunil Deshmukh, by 5614 votes. There were accusations that Shekhawat's family connections had influenced the INC decision to select him as a candidate, which had in turn caused Deshmukh - previously himself an INC representative - to stand as an independent. Shekhawat's mother and father had in the past been elected to represent the town in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha, respectively.[1]

Shekhawat again contested the Amravati seat in the 2014 elections, as also did Deshmukh. On this occasion, it was Deshmukh, now standing as a candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party, who emerged as winner.

References
  1. "President son wins close match". The Telegraph. Calcutta. 23 October 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  2. "Rashtrapati Bhavan to lend 155 gifts to Amravati museum". Business Standard. PTI. 13 July 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  3. "Ex Governor of Rajasthan". Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Secretariate. Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  4. Naithani, Shobhita (10 October 2009). "Impatient Inheritor". Tehelka Magazine. 6 (40). Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  5. Rodrigues, Rommel (11 October 2009). "Another precedent". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 11 January 2016.


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