Udayanraje Bhosale

Udayanraje Bhosale is an Indian politician serving as a member of the Loksabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, from Maharashtra since 2024 from Satara. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Bhosale is the 13th holder of the titulary title of Chhatrapati which was adopted by the Maratha king Shivaji Bhosale upon his coronation in 1674.
He is addressed as Chhatrapati by some in the media, however the title is entirely ceremonial and in the role of a pretender.

Personal life

Bhosale was born in Nashik to Pratapsingh and Kalpanaraje. He studied Production Engineering. He married Damayantiraje on 20 November 2003. They have a son and a daughter.

Political career

Bhosale was a member of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and the Minister for Revenue of Maharashtra in the Sena-BJP Maharashtra government. In 2009, 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections he was elected to the Lok Sabha as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate from Satara (Lok Sabha constituency). In September 2019, he resigned from NCP and announced his return from NCP to the BJP ahead of the Maharashtra legislative assembly elections. He lost the Lok Sabha by-poll in October 2019. In 2020 he was elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. He won from Satara Lok Sabha in 2024 election as a BJP candidate by a margin of 32,771 votes.