1. Pankaja Munde was born on 26 July 1979 and is an Indian politician from Maharashtra.
21 Facts About Pankaja Munde
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Pankaja Munde is elder daughter of the late Gopinath Munde, a former central cabinet minister of India and former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
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Pankaja Munde is the National Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party and serves as an MLC in the Maharashtra Legislative Council.
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Pankaja Munde is currently serving as Cabinet Minister for Animal Husbandary, Environment and Climate change in the Third Fadnavis ministry.
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Pankaja Munde was born to Gopinath Munde and Pradnya Munde on 26 July 1979 as their eldest child.
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Pankaja Munde has two younger sisters, Pritam Munde and Yashashari.
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Gopinath Munde, Pankaja Munde's father, served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra in the 1990s.
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Pankaja Munde herself has held several significant positions in Maharashtra politics.
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Pankaja Munde was the Minister of Rural Development, Women, and Child Welfare in the Devendra Fadnavis cabinet.
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In 2012, Pankaja Munde served as the State President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP's youth wing.
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Pankaja Munde was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Parli constituency in 2009.
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Pankaja Munde took oath as a Maharashtra Cabinet Minister on 31 October 2014, being allotted the Ministry of Rural Development, Women, and Child Welfare.
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Pankaja Munde established a memorial for her father, Gopinath Munde, in Parli, Beed district.
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In 2022, Pankaja Munde led the BJP to victory in the Nagar Panchayat elections in the Beed district.
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Pankaja Munde contested the Beed constituency as the BJP candidate in the 2024 General Elections but lost to Bajrang Manohar Sonwane of the Nationalist Congress Party.
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On 12 July 2024, Pankaja Munde emerged victorious in the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections.
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Pankaja Munde holds the position of a national secretary and incharge of the Madhya Pradesh.
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In June 2015, the opposition party, Indian National Congress, accused Pankaja Munde of being involved in the chikki scam, alleging that she had flouted norms by clearing the purchase without floating tenders.
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Pankaja Munde rejected the accusations of corruption, arguing that a policy for an online tendering system was not in place when she commissioned the purchase.
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Pankaja Munde has authored a photobiography of her father, titled Lokneta Gopinath Munde.
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In 2016, due to a dispute with the Mahant of the Gad, Pankaja Munde decided to hold the Dasara Melava at Savargaon, the birthplace of Saint Bhagwan Baba.