Girish Bapat was an Indian politician who served as a member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Pune, Maharashtra in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Girish Bapat Obituary
Maharashtra’s former Minister and BJP MP Girish Bapat died while undergoing treatment at a Pune hospital on Wednesday. He was 72. He breathed at the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital & Research Centre, where his condition had been described as “critically ill” and was on life support.
He was cremated at Vaikunth crematorium in Pune later in the evening. Hundreds of fans, well-wishers, and prominent personalities from various walks of life turned out for his funeral. A five-time MLA, Bapat had begun his political career in 1973 and was elected to the Pune Municipal Corporation in 1983 and functioned as a corporator for three consecutive terms.
He was elected for the first time to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 1995 from the Kasba Peth constituency which sent him back to the lower house of the State Legislative Assembly for the next four consecutive terms.