14 Facts About Jayant Patil

Jayant Rajaram Patil was born on 16 February 1962 and is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra.

Jayant Patil has been representing Islampur in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for more than three decades.

Jayant Patil was the Cabinet minister of the Water Resources Department in Uddhav Thackeray ministry.

Jayant Patil completed his bachelor in civil engineering from the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute and later did his masters at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, US.

Jayant Patil returned to India after the death of his father in 1984.

Jayant Patil served as the President of the Kasegaon Education Society and the chairman of the Walwa Sugar Cooperation.

Jayant Patil became an MLA for the first time winning the 1990 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election representing the Indian National Congress from Walwa in the Sangli District.

Jayant Patil became the youngest finance minister of Maharashtra, presenting his first budget at the age of 39.

Jayant Patil went on to present the Maharashtra budget ten times consecutively.

In 2001, Jayant Patil met with a severe accident near Bangalore and had to undergo multiple operations on his fractured legs and was confined to a wheelchair for several months.

Jayant Patil presented the finance budget of 2001 while he was still on the wheelchair.

In 2009, Jayant Patil was sworn in as the Rural Development Minister in the Second Ashok Chavan ministry and continued with the same in the Prithviraj Chavan ministry.

Jayant Patil retained his seat in the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, when NCP was reduced to just 41 seats.

Jayant Patil was one of the first 6 to be sworn-in in the MVA Government.