C. R. Patil

Chandrakant Raghunath Patil is a member of the 17th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Navsari constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party. In 2019, he won election with a record margin of 689,668 votes.

At the National Lok Adaalat held on 9 March 2019, the complainant and their learned lawyer on behalf of their complainant client withdrew all their unproven allegations made against CR Patil. Says the legal document (attached), the withdrawal was done without any kind of pressure in witness of the lawyers of both the parties- the defendant as well as the complainant.  On this day, it has been officially  announced that there are no pending claims thereof.  

CR Patil now rules hearts of millions of people from Surat-Navsari with his endless efforts for their betterment. His efforts turned the dream of a working Airport in Surat now a Reality with18 flights at Surat Airport connecting 12 cities by Air. He turned Gandeva (Gujarat), village in Navsari district to the foremost ‘smokeless’ village of Gujarat. He was even successful in increasing the number of trains between Surat and Uttar Pradesh and Bihar by following up and representing with several concerned ministers. He recently contributed heavily by representing the case at the GST council for easing off the GST pressures of compliance and financial burden on the Textile community and brought back the lost smiles amongst the SME enterprises. CR Paatil has proved his efficiency and diligence by understanding the problems of his people and relentlessly working for their betterment.

50 km from Surat, Gandeva village in Navsari district has become the foremost ‘smokeless’ village of Gujarat. Till August this year, Gandeva's tribal people were using crop residue, firewood and cow-dung cakes, as fuel for cooking. But, now this traditional stove has been replaced by a modern gas stoves and cylinders. According to reports, the village has a population of 7,000 consisting of all tribal people. There are more than 2,200 houses in this village, out of which 368 houses were using a stove to cook food, but today whole of the village is using stoves, becoming the first smokeless village of Navsari. This village has been adopted by Navsari's Member of Parliament C.R Patil. 6

Chikhli village, located in Navsari district of Gujarat, has been completely transformed within 1.5-year of its adoption under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, by MP Chandrakant Raghunath Patil. It was adopted in October 2014, to enhance its social, cultural, and infrastructural standard. The scheme says, members of parliament of all political parties had to adopt one village from their constituency and make it a model village by 2016.

Patil, who represents Navsari in south Gujarat in the Lok Sabha, received the prestigious certificate at a function held on 9 January 2013 in Surat by Sandeep Vig (Regional Director of Intertek Moody), a leading international provider of certification services, which did the audit work of the Patil's office.

Chairman, Fund Samiti for Chhtrapati Shivaji Smarak, Samit, Surat; President (i) Shri Saraswati Education Society, Surat; (ii) Maharastrian Vikas Mandal, Surat; (iii) Renuka Mata Charitable Trust, Surat; Ex.-President (i) Maratha Patil Samaj Mandal, Surat; and (ii) South Gujarat Textile Processor Association, Surat; Organised, (i) Samast Maharastrian Samaj Sammelan, Surat; (ii) Govinda Utsav Samittee, Surat; (iii) blood donation camps every year; (iv) more than 70,000 women under the banner `Modi Samarthak Mahils Mandal`, providing employment opportunities to women, and also providing food tiffins to 200 workers on daily basis; and (v) under the banner `Youth for Gujarat` helped youths in various social as well as cultural activities, and also provided accident insurance cover to about 1500 youth who have donated blood in the camps; participated in `Vanchitona Beli Vikas Yatra`organised by BJP; Actively involved in installation of the statue of `Chhtrapati Shivaji`, 29 May 2008, Bilimora town, inaugurated by Hon`ble Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Narendra Modi

Editor and publisher, `Nav Gujarat Times`, a Gujarati daily newspaper since 1991

Patil was born in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. He received post-school technical training at ITI, Surat. Before joining politics in 1989, he was an agriculturist and businessperson.

C R Patil joined the Surat police in 1975 as a police constable. Mr. Patil joined the BJP in 1990. In four short years, with his diligent work he became the Surat District President. But political motives couldn't leave him out of the mean olives of defaming him. In 2002, the Crime Branch arrested Mr. Patil as the chief defaulter in the Diamond Jubilee Cooperative Bank scam. He had taken a loan of more than Rs 540 million from the cooperative bank and did not repay the amount causing the bank to be suspended from the clearing house in 2002. He had to remain in jail for 15 months until he secured bail from the Gujarat High Court on the condition that he would repay the dues. Another concern arose wherein he took 48 acres of land at Sachin to construct 65,000 flats for textile labourers. He made a down payment of Rs 60 million for possession of the GIDC land on lease for 90 years and got delayed to pay the rest. After the re-arrested, Mr. Patil moved the Supreme Court and reimbursed the loan money with interest: Rs 880 million towards the cooperative bank loan of Rs. 460 million and the rest for the GIDC land lease cost. The MP has paid back not only the loans but with more than the interest and had offered to even help further. C R Patil was soon made chairman of the state-owned Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd. Mr. Patil has one of the longest affidavits submitted to the Election Commission of India. Conclusively, out of 103 cases 96 has been clearly resolved till 2015. (As per the authorised letter attached)