Career
Formerly he also served as Minister of State for Urban Development, Forest, Portuguese, Sports, Parliamentary Affairs, Youth Welfare, Ex-Defence Welfare, Law & Order, Fisheries and Guardian Minister of Ratnagiri. Bhaskar Jadhav is a heavyweight NCP leader in Konkan region. Following the clashes with the leadership, he quit Shivsena and contested assembly election as an independent candidate in 2004.
He lost by 3000 votes to NCP candidate Ramesh Kadam.
lieutenant was for the first time that a Shivsena candidate lost deposit in Konkan region. Prabhakar Shinde was an official Shivsena candidate.
After some years of 2004 elections, Bhaskar Jadhav joined NCP. He was inducted to cabinet as a Minister of State with nine portfolios. Bhaskar Jadhav started his political career in 1982.
This was the beginning of his political career.
1986: Worked as Shiv Sena Vibhag Head from Sawarde, District Chiplun. 1988: Posted as Shiv Sena Taluka Head, Chiplun. 1989: President, South T Kaamgaar Sena, Chiplun.
1990: Secretary, Bhartiya Kaamgaar Sena, Chiplun.
1992 - 95: Became Zilla Parishad member from Opposition party, Asurde, District Chiplun. 1995 - 99: Got elected as Shiv Sena Legislative Assembly member from Chiplun Legislative Assembly Voters Association.
1999 - 00: Commonwealth Parliamentary Board of Maharashtra awarded him the Best Speech Award. 1999 - 04: Re-elected as Shiv Sena Legislative Assembly member from Chiplun Legislative Assembly Voters Association.
2005: Shifted to Nationalist Congress Party.
2005: Appointed as General Secretary of NCP. 2006: Elected as NCP Legislative Council member from the Local Swarajya. Sanstha
2009: Legislative Assembly member from Guhagar constituency. 2009: Took Oath as Maharashtra State Minister for Urban Development, Forest, Portuguese, Sports, Parliamentary Affairs, Youth Welfare, Ex-Defence Welfare, Law & Order, Fisheries.
2009: Appointed as Guardian Minister – Ratnagiri District.
2013: Appointed as State President of NCP,Maharashtra.
