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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Rao Sahab shekhawat<br />
|image =<br />
|office = [[Member of Legislative Assembly]]<br />
|constituency = [[Amravati (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Amravati]]<br />
|term = 2009-2014<br />
| predecessor = [[Sunil Deshmukh]]<br />
|successor = [[Sunil Deshmukh]]<br />
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
|religion =<br />
|parents = [[Pratibha Patil]] (mother)<br />[[Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat]] (father)<br />
}}<br />
'''Rajendra Singh Shekhawat''', also known as '''Raosaheb Shekhawat''', is a politician in the Indian state of [[Maharashtra]]. He is a former [[Member of Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) for the [[Amravati (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Amravati constituency]] of the [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]].<br />
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== Family ==<br />
Shekhawat is the son of [[Pratibha Patil]], the former [[President of India]], and [[Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat]], a former MLA and First Mayor of [[Amravati]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Rashtrapati Bhavan to lend 155 gifts to Amravati museum |work=Business Standard |agency=PTI |date=13 July 2012 |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/rashtrapati-bhavan-to-lend-155-gifts-to-amravati-museum-112071300488_1.html |accessdate=2016-01-11}}</ref> He has a sister.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ex Governor of Rajasthan |url=http://rajassembly.nic.in/PratibhaPatil.htm |publisher=Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Secretariate |accessdate=2016-01-11 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130804130808/http://rajassembly.nic.in/PratibhaPatil.htm |archivedate=2013-08-04}}</ref><br />
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== Politics ==<br />
Shekhawat, who has a son and a daughter, was a car dealer in [[Mumbai]] from 1990 until he became a politician.<ref name="tehelka">{{cite news |work=Tehelka Magazine |volume=6 |issue=40 |date=10 October 2009 |title=Impatient Inheritor |first=Shobhita |last=Naithani |url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne101009impatient_inheritor.asp |accessdate=2016-01-14}}</ref> Prior to being elected to the state legislature in 2009, Shekhawat had worked for the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) for a decade. He had been vice-president of the Amravati District Congress Committee and secretary of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee, as well as having involvement with the Seva Dal and Youth Congress.<ref>{{cite news |work=The New Indian Express |title=Another precedent |first=Rommel |last=Rodrigues |date=11 October 2009 |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/article137768.ece |accessdate=2016-01-11}}</ref> He had been looking for an opportunity to be elected since 2004.<ref name="tehelka" /><br />
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Shekhawat won the Amravati [[Vidhan Sabha]] seat in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections. Standing as a candidate of the INC, he defeated the incumbent, [[Sunil Deshmukh]], by 5614 votes. There were accusations that Shekhawat's family connections had influenced the INC decision to select him as a candidate, which had in turn caused Deshmukh - previously himself an INC representative - to stand as an independent. Shekhawat's mother and father had in the past been elected to represent the town in the [[Lok Sabha]] and Vidhan Sabha, respectively.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Telegraph |location=Calcutta |title=President son wins close match |date=23 October 2009 |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091023/jsp/frontpage/story_11648568.jsp |accessdate=2016-01-11}} {{Dead link|date=May 2021}}</ref><br />
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Shekhawat again contested the Amravati seat in the 2014 elections, as also did Deshmukh. On this occasion, it was Deshmukh, now standing as a candidate for the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], who emerged as winner.<br />
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[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]<br />
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[[Category:Maharashtra MLAs 2009–2014]]<br />
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[[Category:Pratibha Patil]]<br />
[[Category:Children of national leaders]]<br />
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