Sunil Chhatrapal Kedar

Sunil Chhatrapal Kedar is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Savner Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Indian National Congress.[1] He retained the seat he had won in 2009 as a Indian National Congress candidate.[2][3] Kedar had represented Savner as an independent in 1995 and 2004.[4]

Kedar is son of former Maharashtra minister and pioneer of co-operative movement in Nagpur district, Chhatrapal Kedar.[5]

Controversy

As chairman of Nagpur District Central Co-operative Bank, and then a member of Nationalist Congress Party Kedar was arrested in connection with a Rupees 153.4 crores securities scandal, in May, 2002.[6] In November, 2013, the assistant registrar of the department of co-operatives ordered Kedar to pay Rupees 299 crores, to compensate the loss the bank bore.[7]

References

  1. "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". India Today. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  2. "Results declared: Winners in Maharashtra". Dalily News and Analysis. 2009-10-22. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  3. "Despite support in Vidarbha, Congress suffered upsets in 2009 Maharashtra Assembly polls". IBN-Live. 2014-09-23. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  4. "Independent MLAs: Truly rebels or fall back support?". Daily News and Analysis. 2009-10-05. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  5. "Cooperative doyen Babasaheb Kedar no more". Times of India. 2013-08-03. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  6. Chintamani, N. "NDCCB chairman Sunil Kedar arrested in gilts scam". redif.com. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  7. Arya, Shishir; Bose, Soumittra S, Ganjapure Vaibhav (2013-11-29). "Sunil Kedar asked to cough up Rs 299 crore over NDCCB fraud". Times of India. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
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