Chandrakant Sonawane

Chandrakant Baliram Sonawane is a member of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Chopda Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Shiv Sena party.

Early life

Chandrakant Sonawane was born in an Agriculturist Koli family of Jalgaon district of Maharashtra in 1961.

Political career

He was convicted by Dhule District Court of his involvement in Jalgaon housing scam of 1996. Then MLA Suresh Jain was mastermind of that scam and he got seven years imprisonment.

Positions held

2013: Elected as Corporator in Jalgaon Municipal Corporation
2014: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
2015: Elected as Director of Jalgaon District Central Co-operative Bank