Vikramsinh Patankar

Vikramsinh Ranjitsinh Patankar (born 27 December 1943) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra, who was a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), representing the Patan (Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha constituency) for five terms since 1983 to 2014, winning 1983, 1985, 1990, 1995, 1999 and 2009 elections. He is a senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party.

He served as the Minister of Public works in the cabinet of Vilasrao Deshmukh from 1999 to 2004. In July 2004, he was given additional charge of Tourism Ministry in the Sushilkumar Shinde's cabinet.

Background and family Vikramsinh Patankar hails from Patan royal family, that participated in the establishment of Hindavi Swarajya. He received a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of Baroda in 1962.

Career He was first elected as an MLA, by winning a by-election in 1983 from Patan, and subsequently re-elected from the same constituency in 1985 assembly election on the ticket of Indian Congress (Socialist). In 1990, he won the seat, securing 62647 votes for Indian National Congress. In 2002, he was a Guardian Minister for Beed district of Maharashtra. He held additional charge of Maharashtra's Tourism Ministry in Sushilkumar Shinde's cabinet from July 2004 to November 2004. During his tenure as PWD Minister, he worked on the completion of Mumbai Pune Expressway and Bandra–Worli Sea Link. He helped set up one of the largest wind farms in Asia in Patan taluka of Maharashtra. Patankar also held the position of chairman of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation.

He lost the assembly election in 2004 by a small margin. Before being elected as an MLA, Vikramsinh Patankar was elected as a member of Zila Parishad (district council) from Satara district in 1972.

Positions held From To Position Refs. 01 1972 1979 Member of Zila Parishad, Satara district 02 1983 1985 Member of Legislative Assembly for Patan 03 1985 1990 04 1990 1995 05 1995 1999 06 1999 2004 07 1999 2004 Minister of Tourism & PWD, Government of Maharashtra 08 2009 2014Member of Legislative Assembly for Patan