Girish Dattatray Mahajan is a politician from Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district. He is the current member of the Jamner Legislative Assembly. In Fadnavis’ cabinet, he served as Maharashtra’s minister of water resources, medical education, and irrigation. Girish Mahajan is a member of Maharashtra’s 14th Legislative Assembly, representing the Jamner Constituency for the sixth time.
Mahajan was born into a Marathi Gurjar family in Jamner. His father’s name is Mahajan Dattatraya Bhika.
Girish Mahajan Twitter
Girish Mahajan has a verified twitter account and has been followed by over 80k people. He joined twitter in 2017 and has been active since then. He tweets frequently and retweets his senior party leaders mostly. He is not much controversial so his following on the internet is growing slowly.
Girish can be reached at @girishdmahajan on twitter. He introduces himself on twitter as “Ex-Minister – Water Resources & Irrigation, Medical Education, Ex-Guardian Minister (Nashik & Jalgaon)”.
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Career of Girish Mahajan
Girish Mahajan was a member of the ABVP as a college student in 1978. He began his career with the ABVP as a grassroots organizer, painting walls and distributing political campaign posters. He was named Taluka President of the ABVP.
Mahajan’s political career began in earnest in the early 1980s, when he was elected Taluka President of Maharashtra’s Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJP’s youth wing).
Girish Mahajan was elected Gram-Panchayat Election for Jamner in 1992. For the first time in 1995, he was elected to the Maharashtra state assembly. He was elected to his fifth term as MLA in 2014. On October 31, 2014, Mahajan was sworn in as Maharashtra’s Water Resources Minister.
On November 12, 2014, his government won an oral vote of confidence, allowing it to continue to govern.
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Education
He studied SYBCom at a college under university of pune in 1981.
Net worth
According to the affidavit submitted to Election Commission of India, Girish Mahajan has movable assets worth more than 3 lakhs rupees and immovable assets worth 20 lakhs. He also has liabilities of over 9 lakh rupees.
Criminal records
According to his affidavit to ECI he has six pending cases against him.
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Timeline 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)
Legislative career timeline of Girish Mahajan
- Sarpanch, Jamner Gram Panchayat (1992-1995)
- Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly – consecutive 5 Terms since 1995
- Cabinet Minister : Irrigation Minister, Maharashtra State
- Guardian Minister : Guardian Minister (Nashik and Nandurbar)
- Kumbhamela Minister : Kumbhamela Minister (Nashik)
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