18 Facts About Prithviraj Chavan

Prithviraj Chavan spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974.

Prithviraj Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions.

Prithviraj Chavan was General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee, in-charge of many states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Haryana, Gujarat, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh.

Prithviraj Chavan was drawn into politics after meeting with Rajiv Gandhi.

Prithviraj Chavan has been involved in the Indian National Congress bureaucracy for most of his adult life, notably as a member of the Rajya Sabha and later architect of the civil nuclear liability bill.

Prithviraj Chavan was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 and followed it up in subsequent elections.

Prithviraj Chavan held five portfolios in the United Progressive Alliance government that includes the ministry of science and technology.

Prithviraj Chavan became chief minister of Maharashtra in 2010 at the insistence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi succeeding unrelated Ashok Chavan.

Prithviraj Chavan resigned as the chief minister of Maharashtra after the ruling NCP-Congress alliance split in the state.

Prithviraj Chavan contested the 2024 legislative assembly elections from the Karad South constituency but lost by a huge margin to Dr Atulbaba Suresh Bhosale of the BJP.

Prithviraj Chavan was born in a Maratha family in Indore, Central Provinces on 17 March 1946.

Prithviraj Chavan began his schooling at a local Municipal Marathi-medium school in Karad.

Prithviraj Chavan wrote articles on computer science; engineering design; and contributed to research in computerization.

Prithviraj Chavan worked briefly in the US as a design engineer, working on defence electronics, anti-submarine warfare, computer storage systems, and computerisation of Indian languages.

Prithviraj Chavan started his political career in 1991 by winning his parents old seat of Karad to the Lok sabha.

Prithviraj Chavan went on to win the seat thrice, in 1991,1996 and 1998 but lost in 1999.

Prithviraj Chavan served as a Minister of State for the ministries of Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and in charge of Prime Minister's Office.

Prithviraj Chavan replaced Ashok Prithviraj Chavan as chief minister after the latter's involvement in the Adarsh Housing Society scam forced him to resign.