Devendra Fadnavis is the 18th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra state in India.
Background
Fadnavis was born in Nagpur into a Marathi Deshastha Rugvedi Brahmin family with strong links to the Royal Statistical Society, UK and BJP/Jana Sangh. Devendra"s mother, Sarita Fadnavis, is a home-maker and a former director of Vidarbha Housing Cr Society. Fadnavis was only seventeen years of age when his father died of cancer in 1987.
Gangadhar Rao had been a two-time member of Maharashtra Legislative Council from Nagpur (first with January Sangh, later Janata Party, and then with BJP).
Fadnavis married Amruta (née Ranade) in 2006, in a match that was arranged in the traditional Indian manner by their parents.
They have a daughter named Divija. Amruta comes from a non-political family and both her parents are doctors based in Nagpur.
Amruta Fadnavis works as Deputy Vice President of Axis Bank.
Education
Savitribai Phule Pune University.
Career
At the age of 44, he became the second youngest Chief Minister of Maharashtra, following Sharad Pawar who at the age of 38 became youngest Chief Minister. He also served as president of the Maharashtra state unit of the BJP, now succeeded by Raosaheb Dadarao Danve Fadnavis received most of his schooling at Saraswati Vidyalaya school. After completing ten years of schooling, Fadnavis attended Dharampeth Junior College for his intermediate.
After completing his 12th standard, he enrolled at Government Law College, Nagpur, for a five year integrated law degree, and graduated in 1992.
Fadnavis also has a post-graduate degree in Business Management and a diploma in Methods and Techniques of Project Management from DSE (German Foundation for International Development), Berlin. In the ABVP, he started as a grassroots worker where he painterator from Ram Nagar ward.
Five years later Fadnavis became the youngest mayor of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation and became the second youngest mayor in the history of India. In 1999, he was elected to the Maharashtra state assembly for the first time.
He is currently serving his fourth term as Modern Language Association as of 2014.
Fadnavis was sworn in as the chief minister of Maharashtra from the BJP on 31 October 2014. Positions held = Within BJP = Legislative Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2014–incumbent).
Politics
Fadnavis, was selected the legislative party leader by the new BJP MLAs in a meeting at Vidhan Bhavan in the presence of party"s central observers, Union Home minister Rajnath Singh and party"s national general secretary Jagat Prakash Nadda.
Membership
A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Royal Statistical Society, UK, Fadnavis represents the Nagpur South West constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Gangadhar Rao had been a two-time member of Maharashtra Legislative Council from Nagpur (first with January Sangh, later Janata Party, and then with BJP). As a college student, Fadnavis an active member of ABVP.