C. R. Patil

This article is about BJP MP from Navsari, Gujarat. For other people with similar name, see Chandrakant Patil (disambiguation).
C. R. Patil
Patil in Dec 2023
State President, Bharatiya Janata Party
Assumed office
20 July 2020
Preceded by Jitu Vaghani
Constituency Gujarat
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
16 May 2009
Preceded by Constituency created
Constituency Navsari
Personal details
Born 16 March 1955
Jalgaon, Bombay State, India
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Children 4
Residence(s) Surat and New Delhi
Alma mater ITI
Profession Politician, businessman and agriculturist
Website crpatil.com

Chandrakant Raghunath Patil, better known as C. R. Patil, is a three-time Member of Parliament elected from Navsari in Gujarat. He is member of the current 17th Lok Sabha of India. Since 2020, he is also the President of BJP Gujarat State unit. He is the first non-Gujarati to hold this position. His name is also spelled C. R. Paatil at times.

Early life and education

Patil was born in Pimpry Akaraut village in Jalgaon district, Maharashtra to Raghunath, a police constable, and Sarubai Patil on March 16, 1955. The family had moved to Gujarat in 1951. He received post-school technical training at ITI, Surat. Like his father, he also worked as a Police Constable from 1975 in Gujarat Police and served for 14 years. He joined the BJP in 1989. He started working for a Gujarati Daily named ‘Navgujarat Times’ in 1991 but delved into politics thereafter. He knows Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi and English languages.

Political journey

He started as the BJP Treasurer, Surat City and then became the BJP Vice President, Surat City. In 1998, he was appointed as the Chairman of Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL), a state PSU by then Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel.

His various positions held during his journey are as follows:

  • Advisory Committee, Chief Minister of Gujarat
  • Advisory Committee, Revenue Ministry, Government of Gujarat
  • BJP Parliamentary Board, Gujarat State
  • Chairman, Fund Samiti for Chhatrapati Shivaji Smarak Samiti, Surat
  • Chairman, Airport Advisory Committee
  • President for various trust and societies:
    • Shri Saraswati Education Society, Surat
    • Maharastrian Vikas Mandal, Surat
    • Renuka Mata Charitable Trust, Surat
    • Maratha Patil Samaj Mandal, Surat
    • South Gujarat Textile Processor Association, Surat
  • Vice-Chairman, Valsad Telecom District, Surat
  • Chairman, Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (G.I.D.C.) (Government of Gujarat),
  • Chairman, Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd. Baroda (GACL) (Government of Gujarat)
  • Monitoring and Advisory Committee, District Rural Development
  • Vice-Chairman, Indo Republic Korea Friendship Group
  • In-charge, 8 Municipal Wards during the Municipal election since 2005
  • Member, Standing Co-ordination Committee, Agriculture and Co-operation Department, Gujarat
  • Chairman, Monitoring & Advisory Committee, District Rural (Village) Development Agency, Navsari
  • Vice-Chairman, Monitoring & Advisory Committee, District Rural (Village) Development Agency, Surat
  • Prabhari, Surat District, Bharatiya Janata Party
  • Sah-Prabhari, Bihar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party
  • Managing Director, Eye Witness news channel

Electoral expertise

His electoral performance is considered with high regards as it was highest margin victory in 2014 and 2019. In 2019, he won election with a record margin of 689,668 votes which was the second highest margin in electoral history. In 2014, he was elected by a record margin of 5,58,116 votes, the third highest across entire India, the third-highest winner in the Lok Sabha in the whole country.

Under his leadership, BJP won a seventh consecutive election with a record 156 of 182 seats, the most won by any political party in Gujarat's history. Still, it was less than his bold claim of resigning even if they won single seat less than 182 seats out of 182 seats.

Role as parliamentarian

In 2013, he became the first Indian Member of Parliament to obtain an ISO certification 9001: 2015 for quality management system in monitoring and administration of the government services for his constituency. This seems to be inspired from Chief Minister's Office, Gujarat which became the first CMO to obtain an ISO certification In January 2009.

He has been member of various Committees as a Parliamentarian listed as follows:

Parliamentary Committees
Period Committee
2022 Member, Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs

Member, General Purposes Committee

Member, Consultative Committee, Petroleum and Natural Gas Committee

2019 Chairperson, Housing Committee of the Lower House
2019 Elected to the 17th Lok Sabha
2018 - 2019 Member, Committee on Government Assurances
2015 - 2019 Member, Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare
2014 - 2019 Member, Committee on Government Assurances

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation

2014 - 2015 Member, Standing Committee on Urban Development
2014 Elected to the 16th Lok Sabha
2010 Member, Standing Committee on Defence

Member, Consultative Committee on Food Processing Industries

2009 Member, Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests
2009 Elected to the 15th Lok Sabha

Navsari became India's first 'smokeless' district with zero usage of firewood or kerosene. He has played a pivotal role in the development of Surat, including policy making for the textile and diamond industries, infrastructure development, or development of Surat airport into a fully functioning one with multiple flights giving air connectivity to the rest of India and initiation of International flights. His work at Chikhli village panchayat under the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is replicated in PM Modi's Varanasi constituency. During the second wave of COVID-19, Patil initiated Covid Care Centres across Gujarat which were set up by various BJP karyakartas.

Personal life

He is married to Smt. Ganga and has 4 children, one son and three daughters.

See also