Devendra Fadnavis

Devendra Fadnavis
Devendra Fadnavis
	Fadnavis in 2024
18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 December 2024
Governor	C. P. Radhakrishnan; Acharya Devvrat (additional charge); Jishnu Dev Varma
Deputy	Ajit Pawar (until 2026); Eknath Shinde; Sunetra Pawar (since 2026);
Cabinet	Fadnavis III
Departments	Home Affairs; Energy; Law & Judiciary; General Administration; Information & Public Relations
Preceded by	Eknath Shinde
	In office; 23 November 2019 – 28 November 2019
Governor	Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Deputy	Ajit Pawar
Cabinet	Fadnavis II
Preceded by	President's rule
Succeeded by	Uddhav Thackeray
	In office; 31 October 2014 – 12 November 2019
Governor	C. Vidyasagar Rao; Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Cabinet	Fadnavis I
Departments	Home Affairs; General Administration; Law & Judiciary; Urban Development; Ports Development; Information Technology; Information & Public Relations
Preceded by	Prithviraj Chavan
Succeeded by	President's rule
9th Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
	In office; 30 June 2022 – 5 December 2024 Serving with Ajit Pawar (from 3 July 2023)
Chief Minister	Eknath Shinde
Departments	Home Affairs; Law & Judiciary; Water Resources; Energy
Preceded by	Ajit Pawar
Succeeded by	Eknath Shinde
22nd Leader of the Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
	In office; 1 December 2019 – 29 June 2022
Chief Minister	Uddhav Thackeray
Preceded by	Vijay Wadettiwar
Succeeded by	Ajit Pawar
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra
	In office; 11 April 2013 – 6 January 2015
Preceded by	Sudhir Mungantiwar
Succeeded by	Raosaheb Danve
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2009
Preceded by	Constituency established
Constituency	Nagpur South-West
	In office; 1999–2009
Preceded by	Vinod Gudadhe Patil
Succeeded by	Sudhakar Deshmukh
Constituency	Nagpur West
Mayor of Nagpur
	In office; 5 March 1997 – 4 February 1999
Preceded by	Kundatai Vijaykar
Succeeded by	Kalpana Pande
Constituency	Ram Nagar ward
Personal details
Born	22 July 1970; Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Amruta Fadnavis (m. 2005)
Children	1
Alma mater	Nagpur University, ; Free University of Berlin
Occupation	Politician
Website	www.devendrafadnavis.in
Nickname	Deva Bhau
	Organisational positions Bharatiya Janata Party Ward President, BJYM (1989); Office Bearer, Nagpur (west) BJP (1990); Nagpur President, BJYM (1992); State Vice-president, BJYM (1994); National Vice-president, BJYM (2001); General Secretary, BJP, Maharashtra (2010); President, BJP Maharashtra (2013); In Charge, BJP Goa (2022); ; Other organisations Organisational President, Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini (2021); Chairman, NITI Aayog's High Power Committee of Chief Ministers on Transformation of Agriculture in India (2019); ;

Devendra Sarita Gangadharrao Fadnavis (born 22 July 1970) is an Indian politician who is currently serving his third term as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra since 5 December 2024. He previously served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, alongside Ajit Pawar (from 2023) in the Eknath Shinde government from 2022 to 2024. From 2019 to 2022, he also served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He became Chief Minister at the age of 44, making him the second-youngest in Maharashtra's history after Sharad Pawar.

During the 2019 Maharashtra political crisis, Fadnavis held a second term as Chief Minister for 5 days before resigning on 28 November 2019. He has been a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He has served as the President of BJP's Maharashtra state unit from 2013 to 2015. He has represented the Nagpur South West constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly since 2009, having previously served Nagpur West from 1999 to 2009. He was also the Mayor of Nagpur from 1997 to 1999.