Ashish Shelar
| Ashish Shelar | |
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| Adv Ashish Shelar | |
| Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for Mumbai Vandre West |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Baba Siddique |
| Member of Legislative Council of Maharashtra | |
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In office 2012 |
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3 October 1972 Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Pratima Shelar |
| Children | Omkar Shelar |
| Alma mater | G.J Advani College Mumbai LLB University of Mumbai |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Website | www |
Ashish Shelar (born 3 October 1972) is an 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly represents Vandre West (Vidhan Sabha constituency). He is a member of Bhartiya Janata Party and President of Mumbai unit of the party.
He was elected as Vice President of Mumbai Cricket Association, Mumbai on 17 June 2015.
On 9 September 2015, Shelar gained controversy when he helped ban the sale of meat for 8 days for the annual Jain celebration, Paryushana, at which time a fast from meat is required. Most constituencies in Maharashtra ban the sale of meat for only 4 days. The ban was criticized by the BJP's Maharashtra coalition partner, Shiv Sena.
Shelar completed his Batcher of Science B.Sc degree from Parle College in the year 1992, after which he completed a five-year law degree from G. J. Advani College, University of Mumbai.
He was Originally a native from Sindhudurg district of Konkan, Ashish was born in chawl system dwelling of mile-workers area. Later in his childhood he shifted and settled in Bandra West with his parents and family. A people’s man since early age, Ashish joined RSS in school days and completed Prathamik Varsha course. He went on to join ABVP in college and successfully rose to the leading position of Mumbai Secretary of ABVP.
Ashish Shelar married with Pratima Dalvi. They have a son named Omkar. Pratima Shelar is an Advocate.
In 2002, Ashish was elected as a BMC corporator from Khar West Ward 77 and elected as Chairman of Mumbai Improvement Committee. He also played a key role in renovation of the Bhau Daji Lad museum, a vital archive of Mumbai’s rich historical and cultural heritage. As President of BJP’s North West Mumbai district, Ashish sharpened his organisational energies in building the party’s strength, and helped increase the party tally of BMC corporators. As a testament of his strong grassroot work, Ashish was re-elected to BMC with record margin of votes in 2007.<
Working closely with then CM Vilasrao and Ashok Chavan, Ashish helped engineer implementation of development friendly policy in BKC zone Ashish was also elected to Mumbai metro regional planning commission an important body dealing with DP of MMR. Enthused by his work, Ashish was appointed as Governor of Mumbai Metro heritage society by MMRDA, working alongside stalwarts like Shri. Arun Tikekar, Shri. Dinesh Afzalpurkar, Ashish represented the citizen’s voice in the formulation of heritage conversation policy.<
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