Kunal Rohidas Patil

Kunal Rohidas Patil is a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He won this constituency for a second time in a row as MLA . He represents the Dhule Rural Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Indian National Congress.^[1] He is the son of Indian National Congress leader and former minister^[2] Rohidas Patil.^[3]

Kunal Rohidas Patil
Member of Legislative Assembly Maharashtra
In office (2014-2019), (2019 – 2024)
Preceded by	Prof.Sharad Patil
Succeeded by	Raghavendra Patil
Constituency	Dhule Rural
Personal details
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party (2025-Present)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (Till July 2025)
Parent	Rohidas Chudaman Patil (Father)

He won the Dhule Rural constituency in 2019 in Maharashtra Assembly elections by 14564 votes against BJP candidate Dnyanjyoti Manohar Patil (Bhadane).^{[citation needed]}

Also, on the orders of Congress party leaders, he contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 in Dhule Lok Sabha constituency. On 22 March 2017, Patil was suspended along with 18 other MLAs until 31 December for interrupting Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar during a state budget session and burning copies of the budget outside the assembly four days earlier.^[4]

Patil has been chairman of Shivaji Vidya Prasarak Sanstha, an over hundred year old educational institution^[5] based in Dhule^[6] and celebrated Golden Jubilee last year. The Sanstha runs all the professional courses from Primary education to Engineering College, Polytechnic, Arts, Commerce and Science Colleges and 40 schools in the district.^{[citation needed]}