Chandrakant Sonawane

Chandrakant Baliram Sonawane is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Chopda Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Shiv Sena party.

Political career
He is convicted by Dhule District Court for his involvement in Jalgaon housing scam (Marathi: घरकुल घोटाळा) of 1996. Then MLA Suresh Jain was mastermind of that scam and he got seven years imprisonment.

Positions held

 * 2013: Elected as Corporator in Jalgaon Municipal Corporation
 * 2014: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
 * 2015: Elected as Director of Jalgaon District Central Co-operative Bank