Anil alias Balasaheb Shankarao Mangulkar (born 1959) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is an MLA from Yavatmal Assembly constituency in Yavatmal district. He won the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election representing the Indian National Congress.
Early life and education.
Mangulkar is from small village Bhaari near Yavatmal city. His father Shankarrao Baliramji Mangulkar was a farmer. He passed Class 12 from Anglo Hindi High School, Yavatmal. He is close to Darda Family of Yavatmal and worked with former Congress MLA Nilesh Deshmukh Parvekar.
Political career.
Mangulkar lost by a margin of 2,253 votes to Madan Yerawar of the BJP in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. But he won the next election from Yavatmal representing Indian National Congress in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He polled 117,504 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Madan Madhukar Yerawar of the Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 11,381 votes.