Udyanraje Bhonsale is member of the 16th Lok Sabha from Satara Constituency in Maharashtra state in India and also the current claimant to the title of Chhatrapati of the former Satara state.
Career
In the 2009 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the Lok Sabha as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate in May 2009 general elections by a margin of three lakh (300,000) votes. Udayanraje is the 13th holder of the title of Chhatrapati which was founded by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on his coronation in 1674.
Membership
Before that, he was a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and the Minister for Revenue of Maharashtra in the Bharatiya Janata Party government.