Bapusaheb Pathare

Bapusaheb Tukaram Pathare (also known as Bapu Pathare and Bapusaheb Pathare ) is an Indian politician and a former member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He served as the first corporator of Kharadi and was a member of the district council of Pune. He was a chairperson of the Pune Municipal Corporation. He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2009 from the Vadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency. He is elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2024 from the Vadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency.

Biography Bapusaheb Pathare grew up in Kharadi Vadgaon Sheri, Pune. At an early age, he became a local sarpanch and then entered the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and became the chairperson of its standing committee. He was the corporator of PMC by 2009 when he contested the Vadgaon Sheri constituency seat in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections with a ticket from the Nationalist Congress Party. He won against Ajay Bhosale of the Shiv Sena with a margin of 33,116 votes. He and his family are said to have a dominance in the political leadership in the suburb of Kharadi, ever since it was a gram panchayat. Kharadi was annexed to the Pune Municipal Corporation in 1997,