Chandrashekhar Bawankule

Chandrashekhar Bawankule
Minister of Revenue
Government of Maharashtra
Assumed office
15 December 2024
Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis
Guardian MinisterNagpur district
Preceded byRadhakrishna Vikhe Patil
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra
In office
12 August 2022  11 January 2025
Preceded byChandrakant Patil
Succeeded byRavindra Chavan (Executive)
Minister of Excise
Government of Maharashtra
In office
8 July 2016  8 November 2019
Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis
Preceded byEknath Khadse
Succeeded byDilip Walse-Patil
Minister of Energy
Government of Maharashtra
In office
4 December 2014  8 November 2019
Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis
Preceded byAjit Pawar
Succeeded byBalasaheb Thorat
Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council
In office
2 January 2022  23 November 2024
Preceded byGirish Vyas
ConstituencyNagpur Local Authorities
Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2024
Preceded byTekchand Sawarkar
ConstituencyKamthi
In office
2004–2019
Preceded bySulekha Kumbhare
Succeeded byTekchand Sawarkar
ConstituencyKamthi
Personal details
Born (1969-01-13) 13 January 1969
Koradi, Maharashtra, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseJyoti Bawankule
ChildrenPayal Bawanklule
Sanket Bawanklule
OccupationPolitician
Websitewww.cbawankule.in

Chandrashekhar Krishnarao Bawankule is the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra and a Member of 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Kamptee Vidhan Sabha. He was a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly & Minister for Energy, New and Renewable Energy Maharashtra, Ministry of State Excise (Maharashtra), and also appointed as the Guardian Minister of Nagpur on 26 December 2014.

As a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he represented the Kamptee Assembly Constituency, being elected from there in 2004, 2009 & 2014. In 2012, he was made Secretary of the Bhartiya Janata Party, Maharashtra State Unit in Devendra Fadnavis' team. In a cabinet expansion, he was given charge of the state excise department on 10 July 2016.