Devendra Fadnavis

Devendra Fadnavis

• Born: 22 July 1970.
• Devendra Fadnavis will become Maharashtra's 18th Chief Minister and the fourth from Vidarbha and BJP's first.
• He is the current President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Maharashtra Pradesh and an MLA from Nagpur since 1999.
• He is a strong proponent of a separate Vidarbha state.
• He joined the BJP as a ward President of its youth wing. He became the youngest municipal corporator of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation at the age of 21.
• He was the second youngest mayor elected in India, when he served as the Mayor of Nagpur at the age of 27 in 1997. He is also the only person to be re-elected as the Mayor in Council in Maharashtra.
• He holds a Graduate Degree in Law from Nagpur University, a Post Graduate Degree in Business Management and a Diploma in Methods and Techniques of Project Management from D.S.E. Berlin.
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