Editing Shankarrao Chavan (section)

==Political career==

===Membership in legislative and parliament bodies===
* Bombay State Legislative Council, 1956
* [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]], 1960–80
* [[Lok Sabha]], 1980–84 and 1985–86
* [[Maharashtra Legislative Council]], 8 July 1986 – 21 October 1988
* [[Rajya Sabha]] from Maharshtra 28 October 1988 – 2 April 1990, April 1990 – April 1996 and April 1996 – April 2002<ref name="Rajya Sabha">{{cite web |url=http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx |title=List of Rajya Sabha members Since 1952 }}</ref>
* Committee on Rules, Rajya Sabha, 1992–96

===Leadership in Rajya Sabha===
* Congress(I) Party in Rajya Sabha 2 July 1991 – 15 May 1996
* Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha from 2 July 1991 to 15 May 1996 elected to the Rajya Sabha in October 1988, re-elected in April 1990 and again in April 1996

===Chief Minister ===
Shankarrao served as chief Minister of Maharashtra on two occasions.

*21 February 1975 – 16 May 1977: This coincided with [[The Emergency (India)|
The Emergency]] declared by prime Minister, [[Indira Gandhi]]. [[Sanjay Gandhi]], the son of the prime minister became the power behind the throne and Chavan had to meet Sanjay first to get an appointment with the prime minister<ref>{{cite book|last1=Godbole|first1=Madhav|title=Unfinished innings : recollections and reflections of a civil servant|date=1996|publisher=Orient Longman|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788125008835|pages=105–106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItQF4g08KbwC&q=%22sanjay+gandhi%22+chavan&pg=PR9}}</ref>  
*12 March 1986 – 26 June 1988

===Union Cabinet Minister, Government of India ===
* Culture and Social Welfare & Education (HRD), 17 October 1980 – 8 August 1981
* Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, 8 August 1981 to 18 July 1984
* Defence, 2 August 1984 to December 30, 1984
* Home, 31 December 1984 – 12 March 1986
* Finance 25 June 1988 – 2 December 1989
* Home, 21 June 1991 to 16 May 1996