Shrikant Jichkar
Shrikant Jichkar (14 September 1954 – 2 June 2004) was an Indian civil servant and politician from Maharashtra. Born in Katol, he earned an extraordinary 20 university degrees in fields including medicine, law, business, journalism and Sanskrit, along with ten Master of Arts degrees in subjects such as public administration and sociology.
He entered politics and became the youngest person elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly at age 26 in 1980, representing Katol. He served as a Minister of State in Maharashtra from 1986 to 1992, and was later a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (1986–1992). He served as a Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra from 1992 to 1998. In 1992 he founded the Sandipani School in Nagpur to help educate underprivileged children, and his Shrikant Jichkar Foundation carried on this work through the Zero Gravity Foundation after his death.
He tried to enter the Lok Sabha in 1998 from Bhandara-Gondiya and in 2004 from Ramtek but was unsuccessful. He died in a car accident near Kondhali, Nagpur district, on 2 June 2004, at the age of 49. He was survived by his wife, Rajashri, and two children.
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