Girish Mahajan

Girish Dattatray Mahajan is a politician from the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. He is the current MLA of Jamner taluka, representing the Jamner Vidhan Sabha Constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Girish Mahajan is cabinet minister for Water Resources (Tapi, Vidarbha, and Konkan), Kumbh Mela, and Disaster Management of Maharashtra State. He is also the guardian minister of Nashik.

In 2014, when BJP formed a government in Maharashtra following the Assembly Election, in CM Devendra Fadnavis's cabinet, he served as Minister of Water Resources and Minister of Medical Education of Maharashtra at separate times.

Early life Mahajan was born in Jamner into a Marathi Gujjar Patil family.

Career As a college student, Mahajan was an active member of ABVP as of 1978. In the ABVP, he started as a grassroots worker where he painted walls and distributed promotional posters for politicians. He was appointed Taluka President of ABVP.

Mahajan's political career commenced in earnest in the early eighties, when he became Taluka President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (youth wing of the BJP) in Maharashtra.

In 1992, Mahajan was elected in a Gram-Panchayat election for Jamner. In 1995 he was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the first time. He is serving his 7th term as an MLA as of 2024 Election Result. Mahajan was sworn in as the Minister of Water Resources of Maharashtra on 31 October 2014. His government won a confidence motion by oral vote on 12 November 2014, allowing it to continue to govern.

As of 29 August 2023, he is serving as the Minister of Rural Development of the state in CM Eknath Shinde's cabinet.

Positions held Ministerial

Legislative

Within BJP

President, BJYM Jamner Taluka (1988-1990). Vice President, BJP Maharashtra (1993-1995). District Chairman, BJP, Jalgaon (2006). Party Pratod. BJP Legislature Party, Maharashtra State (2008). Region Vice President, BJP, Maharashtra Pradesh (2011).