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Place of Birth: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
About Prithviraj Chavan
- Prithviraj Chavan (born 17 March 1946) is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, a state in Western India.
- Chavan is a graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and University of California in mechanical engineering.
- He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974.
- Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean, non-controversial image, a low-profile leader.
- Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions.
- Chavan was also General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC), in-charge of many states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Haryana, Gujarat, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh. Chavan was drawn into politics after meeting with Rajiv Gandhi.
- He has been involved in the Indian National Congress bureaucracy for most of his adult life, notably as a member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the India's Parliament) and later architect of the civil nuclear liability bill.
- He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 and followed it up in subsequent elections.
- Chavan held five portfolios in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that includes the ministry of science and technology.
- He became chief minister of Maharashtra in 2010 at the instance of Congress President Sonia Gandhi succeeding unrelated Ashok Chavan.
- He resigned as the chief minister of Maharashtra after the ruling NCP-Congress alliance split in the state.
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