Ranjeet Deshmukh
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| Agriculture minister Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 1999–2004 |
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| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Roopa Deshmukh |
| Children | Ashish Deshmukh & Dr.Amol Deshmukh |
| Alma mater | Nagpur University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Engineer |
| Website |
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'Ranjeet Deshmukh, who has served as the agriculture minister in the Vilasrao Deshmukh cabinet between 1999-2004, had also held other portfolios. He had held the position as state unit president of the party on two occasions was the president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC). He was first elected to the MLA in 1985 from the Savner constituency.
'Ranjeet Deshmukh, joined politics in the 1970 and he was a youth leader he was the head of the youth congress of the Indian National Congress and worked very closely with Sanjay Gandhi.He was first elected as an MLA from Ramtek constituency Maharashtra. In the 1990s he was involved in the movement for a separate statehood for Vidarbha. Ranjeet Deshmukh considered 'chief minister material' for Maharashtra. He was in the reckoning but party colleague Vilasrao Deshmukh got the post Later, he fell out with the Congress leadership over granting of statehood to Vidarbha. Ranjeet Deshmukh held several Cabinet portfolios right from rural development in which he made significant contribution pioneering village cleanliness drives, to education, technical education, health, agriculture and textiles. He was in the Congress-led governments in the state for almost two decades. He had love hate relationship with former CM late Vilasrao Deshmukh. In 2004 he unsuccessfully contested from Nagour West Assembly seat and was defeated by the current CM (chief minister) Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP. He was a two-term president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee and ex-minister. Ranjit Deshmukh was seeking a desperate comeback into the Congress mainstream. His 65th birthday celebrations provided an occasion. His old associates organized a function which looked more like a Congress event. The organizing committee of over 150 Congressmen was headed by district guardian minister Shivajirao Moghe and had two ministers from the city Nitin Raut and Rajendra Mulak. In 2014 he quit the Indian National Congress because of poor functioning” of the organisation.
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