Girish Dattatray Mahajan


Girish Mahajan is a politician from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra,He is current MLA of Jamner. He was minister of water resources, Medical education and minister for irrigation of Maharashtra state in Fadnavis's cabinet. Girish Mahajan is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the Jamner Constituency, serving his fifth term

Early life

Mahajan was born in Jamner into a Marathi Gurjar family.

Career

As a college student, Mahajan was an active member of ABVP in 1978. In the ABVP, he started as a grassroots worker where he painted walls and distributed promotional posters for politicians. He was appointed as Taluka President of ABVP.
Mahajan' political career commenced in earnest in the early eighties, when he became Taluka President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in Maharashtra.
In 1992, Mahajan was elected as a Gram-Panchayat Election for Jamner. In 1995 he was elected to the Maharashtra state assembly for the first time. He served his 5th term as MLA as of 2014. Mahajan was sworn in as the Water Resources Minister of Maharashtra on 31 October 2014. His government won a confidence motion by oral vote on 12 November 2014 allowing it to continue to govern.

Positions held

Within [BJP]