Biography

Devendra Fadnavis is a prominent Indian politician of the BJP. He was appointed as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra in 2014.His father was a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from Nagpur.He was a student of the Indira Gandhi Convent School in Nagpur, but he moved to the Saraswati Vidyalaya when his father was sent to prison for participating in anti-government protests during the Emergency. He said that he did not want to attend a school named after the Prime Minister responsible for his fathers arrest.His father passed away when he was only 17 years old.His father had mentored Nitin Gadkari. Gadkari refers to Devendras father as his Guru. Devendra Fadnavis with Nitin Gadkari.Fadnavis had joined politics after his father passed away. As a groundworker of the ABVP, he has painted walls and pasted political posters.When he was in college, he was an RSS member too, and he had joined his local RSS Shakha at Trikoni Park, Nagpur. Devendra Fadnavis (centre) in the RSS.He was elected as the youngest Mayor of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation and the second youngest in the history of India when he was just 22. Devendra Fadnavis after being elected as the Mayor of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation.Reportedly, Fadnavis was brought into the limelight by Gopinath Munde, who considered him as a promising young leader.The BJP named Fadnavis as the President of Maharashtra unit in 2013; because of his promising nature and relatively younger age.