Biography and Political Life
R. R. Patil, popularly known as “Aba”, was born on 16 August 1957 in the village of Anjani, in the Tasgaon taluka, Sangli district in the State of Maharashtra. He obtained a B.A. from Shantiniketan College Sangli as well as an LL.B.. He speaks Marathi, Hindi and English.
Patil was a member of Sangli Zillah Parishad from 1979 to 1990 from Savlaj constituency, then was elected to the Maharashtra legislative assembly in 1990, 1995, 1999, and 2004, representing Tasgaon, in Sangli district. He became the Chief Whip of the Congress Party in the assembly as well as the chairman of the public accounts committee of the assembly in 1996–97 and 1998–99.
On November 1, 2004, he was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He is the chief of the Nationalist Congress Party's Maharashtra unit and NCP legislative party in Maharashtra. He was also the Home Minister of Maharashtra in the previous government. After taking charge of Home Ministry, he also sought guardianship of Naxal Activity affected district Gadchiroli. Since, then in spite of many naxalized attacks he encouraged natives to support elected Government through some developmental work for them.
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