Mumbai : Arvind Sawant, Shiv Sena MP from Mumbai South, will be sworn in as Union Minister on Thursday.
Sanjay Raut, MP representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, stated that from Shiv Sena one leader will take oath as a Minister. "Uddhav ji has given Arvind Sawant's name, he will take oath as a minister," he said.
The party leader on Wednesday said: "He will replace Anant Geete, the lone Sena minister in the previous Narendra Modi-led government, who lost from the Raigad Lok Sabha seat in last month's election".
Sawant, 68, who retained his seat by defeating Congress' Milind Deora by 1,00,067 votes, has been associated with the Shiv Sena since the party's early years.
He worked as an engineer with Mahanagar Telephone Network Ltd (MTNL) till 1995 and took voluntary retirement after he was nominated to the Maharashtra Legislative Council from governor's quota when Shiv Sena-BJP government came to power in 1995.
He was elected as Member of the Legislative Council from the Mumbai Local bodies constituency. He contested the Lok Sabha election for the first time in 2014, defeating Deora, then an MP, from the Mumbai South seat by 1,28,564 votes.
Sawant is a deputy leader of the Shiv Sena, and also president of the MTNL trade union.
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