Biographical Sketch
Member of Parliament
XI Lok Sabha

SHIV SENA - MUMBAI SOUTH CENTRAL (MAHARASHTRA)




Father's Name:   	Late Shri Vishnu Rawale

Date of Birth:   	9 December 1948

Place of Birth:   	Parel in Distt. Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Marital Status:   	Married on 21 December 1986
Spouse's Name:   	Smt. Indira Mohan Rawale

Children:   	One son and one daughter

Educational Qualifications :
	S.S.C.
	Educated at Raja Shivaji Vidyalaya, Dadar, Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Profession :
   	Sportsman, Trader, Industrialist and Trade Unionist

Permanent Address :
   	2/21, Abdul Kadar Chambers, St. Xavier Street, Parel, Mumbai-400012 (Maharashtra) 
	Tels. (022) 4145349, 4160303
 	Fax. 3013426

Positions Held :
   
1979-84	President, Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena (Shiv Sena), Maharashtra
1991	Elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) 
1991-94	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Urban Development
1993-95	Member, Estimates Committee 
	Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti, Ministry of Urban Development
1993-96	Member, Standing Committee on Commerce (including Textiles)
	Member, Informal Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament for Central Railway Zone
1994-95	Member, Library Committee
1994-96	Special invitee, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Urban Development
	Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
1995-96	Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti, Ministry of Surface Transport and also Ministry of Tourism
1996	Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Eleventh) 

Social and Cultural Activities :
   	Launched free education centres for students of 10th and 12th classes and for university students; provided school uniforms and books to the poor students; donated blood about 25 times besides arranging free medical (vedic) centres and blood donation centres a number of times; organised cultural programmes and struggled for justice to artists and textile mill workers; underwent fast on two occasions in Mumbai for the cause of textile mill workers

Special Interests :
   	Gathering information on industrial development, visiting foreign countries to obtain know-how of their development, upliftment of the poor, the neglected and workers

Favourite Pastime and Recreation:  Recreation	Tourism, cooperative movement, education and sports

Sports and Clubs :
   	Football, kabaddi, cricket, kho-kho, boxing; organised several sports events in Maharashtra

Countries Visited :
   	Singapore, U.A.E. and U.K.

Other Information :
   	Member (i) Greater Bombay Electricity Supply and Transport Committee (BEST); (ii) Advisory Committee, Mumbai Telephones; and (iii) Organising Committee for the 26th International Film Festival of India, Mumbai, January 1995

Election Result :
   
Mumbai South Central Lok Sabha constituency
Total electorate	8,02,038
Total votes polled	3,71,168
Votes polled in favour of the
 first four leading candidates :
(1) Shri Mohan Rawale (S.S.)	1,73,900
(2) Shri Datta Samant (S.P.)	1,15,248
(3) Shri Jamkhanwala Ishaq Abedin (I.N.C.)	69,207
(4) Shri Azizbhai (Ind.)	2,540
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