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Dilipkumar Mansukhlal Gandhi (9 May 1951 – 17 March 2021) was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party. He was the member of the 15th Lok Sabha & 16th Lok Sabha of India.

Political career

Gandhi began his political career by holding key positions in the district organisation of BJP such as General Secretary, Joint Secretary and President. He was elected to the Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation as a Councilor and later he became the Leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Municipal Council. In 1985, he became the Vice-President of the Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation.

In 1999 he was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from Ahmednagar constituency in Maharashtra state. He was Union Minister of State, Ministry of Shipping from 29 January 2003 to 15 March 2004.

In 2009, he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the same constituency.

In 2014, he was re-elected with a margin of more than 200,000 votes in 2014 Indian general elections in which BJP had a huge victory across India under leadership of Narendra Modi as PM Candidate.

Death

He died on 17 March 2021, from COVID-19.

See also

• All India Marwari Yuva Manch
• Utkal Prantiya Marwari Yuva Manch

References

1. "Former Union minister and BJP leader Dilip Gandhi dies of Covid-19". India Today.

External links

• Detailed Profile: Shri Dilip Kumar Mansukhlal Gandhi
• Official biographical sketch in the Parliament of India website
• Odisha Tourism

v t e Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Maharashtra
Bharatiya Janata Party (22)	Hansraj Ahir Sharad Bansode Subhash Bhamre Harishchandra Chavan Raosaheb Danve Sanjay Dhotre Nitin Gadkari Sunil Gaikwad Dilipkumar Gandhi Heena Gavit Raksha Khadse Poonam Mahajan Pritam Munde pre-bye poll: Gopinath Munde – deceased Ashok Nete A. T. Patil Kapil Patil Sanjaykaka Patil pre-bye poll: Nanabhau Patole – resigned Gopal Shetty Anil Shirole Kirit Somaiya Ramdas Tadas pre-bye poll: Chitaman Wanga – deceased
Shiv Sena (18)	Shivajirao Adhalrao Anandrao Adsul Shrirang Barne Ravindra Gaikwad Bhavana Gawali Anant Geete Hemant Godse Prataprao Jadhav Sanjay Jadhav Chandrakant Khaire Gajanan Kirtikar Sadashiv Lokhande Vinayak Raut Arvind Sawant Rahul Shewale Shrikant Shinde Krupal Tumane Rajan Vichare
Nationalist Congress Party (5)	Udayanraje Bhosale Dhananjay Mahadik Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil Supriya Sule
Indian National Congress (2)	Ashok Chavan Rajiv Satav
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