Jayakumar Jitendrasinh Rawal

Jaykumar Rawal is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Sindkheda Constituency. Jaykumar Rawal is a descendant of the royal family of Dondaicha Sansthan and his grandfather Sahakar Maharshi Dadasaheb Rawal was the first MLA in 1952. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[1] Rawal was also Member of Legislative Assembly from Sindkheda in 2009.^[2] Rawal was one of the general secretaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party Maharashtra State unit in 2013.^[3] He is a Five term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 & 2024.

Jaykumar Rawal
Cabinet Minister Government of Maharashtra
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 December 2024
Minister	Marketing Protocol
Governor	C. P. Radhakrishnan
Cabinet	Third Fadnavis ministry
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Deputy CM	Eknath Shinde Ajit Pawar
Guardian Minister	NA
Minister of Food & Drug Administration Government of Maharashtra
In office 16 June 2019 – 12 November 2019
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Preceded by	Girish Bapat
Minister of Tourism Government of Maharashtra
In office 8 July 2016 – 12 November 2019
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Succeeded by	Aaditya Thackeray
Minister of Employment Guarantee Government of Maharashtra
In office 8 July 2016 – 16 June 2019
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Succeeded by	Jaydattaji Kshirsagar
Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Preceded by	Annasaheb Patil
Constituency	Sindkheda
In office 2004–2009
Preceded by	Hemant Deshmukh
Succeeded by	Padmakar Valvi
Constituency	Shahada
Personal details
Born	Jaykumar Jitendrasinh Rawal (1975-01-16) 16 January 1975 (age 50) Dondaicha, Maharashtra, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Subhadra Kumari
Children	Jayaditya Singh (Son), Vedanteshwari Kumari (Daughter)
Education	Business Management
Alma mater	Cardiff University
Occupation	Politician, businessman
Website	www.mahabjp.org

Jaykumar was appointed Cabinet Minister in Expansion of Devendra Fadnavis Ministry and appointed Tourism, Employment Guarantee Scheme Minister^[4] on 8 July 2016.^[5] Jaykumar Rawal was appointed Food, Drugs and Protocol Minister in the government of Maharashtra on 4 June 2019.

Controversy

Positions held

Achievements

• Co- ordinator – Youth Forum, All party Young Legislator Association of Maharashtra consisting of 72 MLA's of all parties

(From 2004 till date)

• Student Representative as First Asian in Cardiff University England (UK).
• Played key role in establishing BJP in the district with very significant control over numerous local, political, social, educational, co-operative bodies
• For the first time in Dhule Zilla Parishad, BJP played a major role in establishing Shiv Sena in 2008
• Elected BJP mayor at Dhule Municipal Corporation in 2011 for the first time in history.
• Shindakheda Taluka BJP established power in Shindkheda taluka Municipalities, Panchayat Samiti, Bazar Samiti, Nagar Panchayat and Purchase and Sales Association.
• Got 2 M.P.s elected in Dhule & Nandurbar. Nandurbar M.P. defeated congress sitting minister, 2014
• Recently, BJP established power in Dhule Zilla Parishad, Dhule Municipal Corporation, DDC bank etc.

Within BJP

• National Secretary, BJYM Delhi.^[6]
• general secretary, BJP, Maharashtra (2013)
• Vice President, BJP Maharashtra State

Legislative

• Corporator, Municipality of Dondaicha - 2001-2004
• Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly – 2004–2009
• Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly – Re-elected in 2009
• Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly – Re-elected third Term in 2014
• Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly - Re-elected fourth Term in 2019
• Tourism, Employment Guarantee Scheme Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra since 8 July 2016-June 2019.
• Food and drugs administration, civil supplies and consumer protection, Tourism Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra since 4 June 2019^[7]

• Guardian Minister for Dhule District 2024

See also

• Devendra Fadnavis ministry (2014–)