Chandrakant Sonawane
# Chandrakant Sonawane

Chandrakant Baliram Sonawane is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Chopda Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Shiv Sena party.

## Political career

He is convicted by Dhule District Court for his involvement in Jalgaon housing scam (Marathi: घरकुल घोटाळा) of 1996. Then MLA Suresh Jain was mastermind of that scam and he got seven years imprisonment.

## Positions held

* 2013: Elected as Corporator in Jalgaon Municipal Corporation
* 2014: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
* 2015: Elected as Director of Jalgaon District Central Co-operative Bank
