Anandrao Vithoba Adsul

Anandrao Vithoba Adsul (born 1 June 1947) was a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India.

He represented the Amravati constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party.

He was the chairperson of two corporations from 1995 to 1999 in the Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra.

He served as the Union Minister of State for Finance in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet till 2004.

He has been honored with Sansad Ratna Award in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

In July 2022, he resigned from Shiv Sena as a leader of the party.

He had represented the Amravati constituency in 15th Lok Sabha and Buldhana constituency of Maharashtra in the 14th Lok Sabha, 13th Lok Sabha and 11th Lok Sabha.

He served as a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Amravati (Lok Sabha constituency) till 2019.

Adsul contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a Shiv Sena candidate, and he lost the election by 30,000 votes to Navneet Kaur Rana, a former Telugu actress who contested the election as an independent candidate.

In October 2021, his name surfaced in the news in connection with an alleged ₹980-crore fraud at City Co-operative Bank, which is being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).