Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil

Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil
Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil
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Member of Legislative Council , Karnataka
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2016
Preceded by	Veerkumar Appaso Patil (INC)
Chairman, Karnataka Milk Federation, Belgaum
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2014
Chairman , Mahakali educational charitable society
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1978
Chairman, Phoenix Public School
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1988
Personal details
Born	16 June 1956 (age 68); Solapur, India
Political party	Independently Elected
Relations	Pranay Vivek Patil (son) ; V.L. Patil (Father)
Residence(s)	Belgaum, India
Alma mater	St. Peters school, Panchgani

Vivekrao Vasanthrao Patil (born 1956) is an Indian politician, educationalist, author and an industrialist. Born in Solapur, he is the son of V.L. Patil, a politician and freedom fighter. Vivekrao is the father of a renowned Indian politician Pranay Vivek Patil. He completed his MBA from Chatrapati Shivaji University, Kolhapur.

He is an elected member of the legislative council and was elected independently with a record victory margin that was the highest in the state since independence. He was also unanimously elected director of the Karnataka milk federation and then immediately elected unanimously as the chairman. Vivekrao is a member of the Belgaum chamber of commerce. He was also the chairman of the Raibag sugar factory and the Belgaum District Co-operative bank. He is a Political Strongman in the Taluka. He also runs a chain of over 50 educational institutions in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa. He among other things has written various novels. One of them Dawn to Dust was a best selling romantic tragedy novel in Europe and India. A Bollywood movie (Dhadkan) was based on it.

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