Maharashtra: New Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil a trusted Pawar aide, bother shooter

Dilip Walse Patil, who was named the brand new Home Minister of Maharashtra after the resignation of Anil Deshmukh, is one in every of NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s most trusted lieutenants.
The 64-year-old Walse Patil, son of late Congress MLA Dattatray Walse Patil, selected an unconventional path to a political profession. After finishing his legislation research with a postgraduate diploma at Mumbai’s Government Law College, Patil evaded electoral politics and as an alternative selected to work as Pawar’s private secretary, probably on the recommendation of his father.
In this position, Walse Patil cultivated a backroom persona with a silent presence, with the Maratha strongman as his mentor.
As he takes cost of the necessary Home portfolio, his fame as a bother shooter will likely be referred to as on to repair the damaged Mumbai and state police power, and the discredited division.
After years of working with Pawar, Walse Patil lastly contested elections in 1990 from Ambegaon Assembly seat in Pune district, and received the seat. Since then, the sixth-term MLA has retained the constituency and not using a break.
In earlier NCP governments, he has been entrusted with finance, power and medical and better training portfolios.
In 1999, when Pawar parted methods with the Congress to kind the NCP, Walse Patil was within the core workforce and a part of all of the decision-making and its execution.
The massive setback to his political profession got here between 2009 to 2014 when the social gathering excessive command determined to make him Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly as an alternative of cabinet minister. The determination was a shock to many, because the Speaker is commonly seen as a retired politician.
But Walse Patil accepted the job and earned the tag of “strict headmaster”. He centered on sustaining the decorum of the legislature and inspired first-term members to take part actively by giving them alternatives on the ground of the House.
In 2019, after the Maha Vikas Aghadi was being fashioned, he was given the excise and labour departments. He was until lately the president of the National Federation of Cooperatives Sugar Factories Ltd.