Devendra Fadnavis

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Devendra Fadnavis ( Marathi देवेंद्र फडणवीस ; born July 22, 1970 in Nagpur ) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was Chief Minister of Maharashtra State from 2014 to 2019 .

biography

Devendra Fadnavis was born in what is now the state of Maharashtra into a Marathic Brahmin family. His parents were Gangadhar Rao and Sarita Fadnavis. His father was a party member of the BJP predecessor party Bharatiya Jana Sangh , from 1977 the newly founded Janata Party and then the BJP and was also active in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an ideological cadre organization of the BJP. Fadnavis attended the Saraswati Vidyalaya School in Nagpur - he is said to have refused to attend the originally planned Indira Convent , since his father was imprisoned as an opposition member at the time of the state of emergency from 1975 to 1977 by the Indira Gandhi government . From 1986 to 1987 he attended Dharampeth Junior College in Nagpur and then studied law at the University of Nagpur from 1987 to 1992, where he obtained a law degree that qualified him for judicial office. He then completed a postgraduate degree in business administration ( business management at) in Nagpur. In addition, Fadnavis completed further training at the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) in Berlin and obtained a diploma in “Methods and Techniques in Project Management”.

Since his youth, Fadnavis was a member of the BJP and the RSS. In the youth and student years he became active in the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student organization of the BJP. In 1992 he became local chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha , the youth organization of the BJP. From 1992 to 1997 Fadnavis was an elected member of the Nagpur City Council and from 1997 to 2001 mayor of the city. When he took office at the age of 27, he was one of the youngest mayors of a major city in all of India. From 1999 he was a member of the parliament of Maharashtra for the constituency 137-Nagpur West . In 2004 and 2009 he was re-elected (in the latter election in constituency 52-Nagpur South West ). In 2010 he was elected BJP General Secretary in Maharashtra and in 2013 BJP Party President of Maharashtra .

In the 2014 general election in Maharashtra, the BJP won 27.8% of the vote and 122 (42.4%) out of 288 constituencies. This represented a significant gain compared to the previous election in 2009 (14.0% and 46 constituencies) and was attributed , among other things, to the ongoing Modi wave , ie the euphoria after winning the all-Indian parliamentary election in 2014 . On October 31, 2014, Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as Chief Minister of a coalition government made up of the BJP and Shiv Sena . When he was elected, Fadnavis was the youngest Chief Minister in India at 44 and the second youngest in Maharashtra history (after Sharad Pawar , who was elected in 1978 at the age of 37).

Politically, Fadnavis was seen as the BJP's young hopes and as a relatively unspent, uncorrupted politician. He is an advocate of Vidarbha's transformation into a state of its own, but made it clear that as Chief Minister he would not pursue this issue (which seemed necessary in consideration of the then coalition partner Shiv Sena). He is counted among the confidants of Prime Minister Modi and, like him, likes to be portrayed as a “dynamic modernizer”.

On October 5, 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Osaka University (Japan) for “initiating the reform process for socio-economic development” in Maharashtra.

In the parliamentary elections in Maharashtra on October 21, 2019, the BJP and its coalition partner Shiv Sena suffered significant losses of seats, but together they still achieved an absolute majority in the parliament of Maharashtra. After the election, however, the two parties could not agree on the formation of a new coalition, as Shiv Sena claimed the post of chief minister despite significantly lower votes and mandates, which the BJP refused to accept. The state of Maharashtra was therefore placed under president's rule on November 12, 2019 . The BJP meanwhile negotiated with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), reached an agreement, and on November 23, 2019, Fadnavis was sworn in as Chief Minister of a government made up of the BJP and NCP. This coalition proved to be short-lived, however, as a significant number of the elected NCP MPs did not want to follow the course of their party leadership. Fadnavis therefore resigned after only three days in office on November 26, 2019. Ultimately, on November 28, 2019, a coalition government was formed under Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with the unequal coalition partners Shiv Sena, the Congress Party and the NCP.

Personal

Fadnavis speaks English, Marathi and Hindi. In 2006 he married Amruta Ranade, who holds a senior position at Axis Bank in Nagpur. The couple has a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Devendra Fadnavis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c All you need to know about Devendra Fadnavis. dnaindia.com, October 28, 2014, accessed June 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Jideep Hardikar: Kid who protested Emergency - Nagpur's Mr Popular set to don CM mantle. The Telegraph (Calcutta), October 29, 2014, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Devendra Fadnavi's Biography. indiastudychannel.com, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on June 5, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  6. ↑ a b From RSS poster boy to Maharashtra CM: A look at Devendra Fadnavis' journey. firstpost.com, October 29, 2014, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  7. ^ A b Ritesh K Srivastava: Devendra Fadnavis - Mr Clean of Maharashtra politics. October 28, 2014, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis to receive Supreme Honorary degree by Japanese varsity. The Economic Times, October 5, 2015, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Maharashtra put under President's Rule for 6 months as Governor says no possibility of govt now. India Today, November 12, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bjp-forms-government-in-maharashtra/articleshow/72193273.cms?from=mdr. The Economic Times, November 23, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Nikhil Agarwal: Devendra Fadnavis resigns as Maharashtra chief minister. November 26, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Maharashtra News Live: CM Uddhav Thackeray to take charge of his office today. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fadnavis, Devendra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES देवेंद्र फडणवीस
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagpur , Vidarbha Region , Maharashtra , India