Vilasrao Deshmukh Biography, Age, Death, Wife, Children, Family, Caste, Wiki & More

Vilasrao Deshmukh has also been an integral part of the Union cabinet, holding the responsibilities of Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences.

 

He joined politics in the early 1970s by becoming a member of Latur Village Panchayat in 1974 and in the same year he also became village chief. His association with the village continued till 1980. He contested for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election for the first time in 1980 and kept on winning till 1995. He lost the election in 1995 but came back with a vengeance in 1999 and won it with a huge margin of 90k votes from his constituency Latur.

 

Deshmukh Ji was the first person to take initiative by asking for a farmer loan waiver in UPA-1. Deshmukh formed the Manjra Charitable Trust which helps run several colleges in Latur, Pune & Mumbai. Some of them are Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology at Versova, Andheri in Mumbai, Manajara ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital in Latur. He also founded Marathwada Mitra Mandal under which there are two colleges one in MMCC (Marathwada Mitra Mandal College of Commerce) in Pune and the other is MMIT (Marathwada Mitra Mandal Institute of Technology) in Pune.