Suresh Narayan Dhanorkar


Suresh Narayan Dhanorkar, also called Balubhau Dhanorkar, is the newly elected member of Lok Sabha from Chandrapur constituency. He belongs to the Indian National Congress political party. He is the only candidate for Indian national Congress to be elected as MP from Maharashtra.
He was nominated as the Lok Sabha candidate after resigning as MLA from Shiv Sena and joined the Indian National Congress Party

Controversy

Dhanorkar, along with Sada Sarvankar also of the Shiv Sena and Member of Legislative Assembly from Mahim, had the maximum number of criminal cases pending against him amongst the 288 members of 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, as declared in the affidavit submitted by him to the Election Commission of India. In September, 2012, Dhanorkar was externed from Chandrapur and its neighbouring districts: Nagpur, Wardha, Yavatmal, Gadchiroli and Gondia purported as an action against his alleged criminal activities.
On 1 February 2016, Dhanorkar was arrested for threatening a patwari handling a case involving illegal excavation of sand.