Girish Mahajan
Rural development minister of Maharashtra
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 August 2022
Governor	Ramesh Bais
Chief Minister	Eknath Shinde
Deputy CM	Devendra Fadnavis Ajit Pawar
Preceded by	Mangal Prabhat Lodha (Tourism Ministry) Hasan Mushrif (Rural Development Ministry)
Cabinet Minister Government of Maharashtra
In office 31 October 2014 – 08 November 2019
Minister	Water Resources Ministry Command Area Development Ministry Medical Education Ministry
Governor	C. Vidyasagar Rao Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Guardian Minister	Jalgaon District
Preceded by	Sunil Tatkare (Water Resources Ministry) Sunil Tatkare (Command Area Development Ministry) Jitendra Awhad (Medical Education Ministry)
Succeeded by	Chhagan Bhujbal (Acting) (Water Resources Ministry) Chhagan Bhujbal (Acting) (Command Area Development Ministry) Balasaheb Thorat (Acting) (Medical Education Ministry) Gulab Raghunath Patil (Jalgaon District)
Deputy Leader of The House Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
In office 04 June 2016 – 08 November 2019
Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Speaker of the House	Haribhau Bagade
Leader of the House	Devendra Fadnavis
Preceded by	Eknath Khadse
Succeeded by	Ajit Pawar
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 1995
Preceded by	Dattatray Mahajan
Constituency	Jamner
Personal details
Born	(1960-05-17) 17 May 1960 (age 63) Jamner, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Sadhana Mahajan
Parent	Dattatray Mahajan (father)
Residence(s)	Jamner, Jalgaon district, Maharashtra

Girish Dattatray Mahajan is a politician from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. He is the current MLA of Jamner taluka representing Jamner vidhan sabha constituency. He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. Girish Mahajan is the Rural development minister of Maharashtra state.^[1]

In 2010s, CM Devendra Fandnavis' cabinate he served as "mister of water resources" and minister medical education of the state in separate times.

Early life

Mahajan was born in Jamner into a Marathi Gurjar family.^[2]

Career

As a college student, Mahajan was an active member of ABVP in 1978.^[3] In the ABVP, he started as a grassroots worker where he painted walls and distributed promotional posters for politicians. He was appointed Taluka President of ABVP.

Mahajan's political career commenced in earnest in the early eighties, when he became Taluka President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (youth wing of the BJP) in Maharashtra.^{[citation needed]}

In 1992, Mahajan was elected as a Gram-Panchayat election for Jamner. In 1995 he was elected to the Maharashtra state assembly for the first time. He served his 5th term as MLA as of 2014. Mahajan was sworn in as the Water Resources Minister^[4] of Maharashtra on 31 October 2014. His government won a confidence motion by oral vote on 12 November 2014 allowing it to continue to govern.

As of 29 August 2023, he is serving as the minister of rural development of the state in CM Eknath Shinde's cabinet.^[1]

Positions held

Ministerial

Legislative

Within BJP