About Rahul Awade
A factual profile of the Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the Ichalkaranji Assembly Constituency — his background, his education, the offices he has held, and the responsibilities of the seat he holds.
01 Profile
Rahul Prakash Awade
Rahul Awade was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Ichalkaranji in November 2024 and took office on 23 November 2024, serving in the 15th Assembly for the term 2024–2029.
He was born on 22 September 1978. He took a Bachelor of Commerce from Shivaji University, Kolhapur in 2011 and a Master of Business Administration from NIMS University, Jaipur in 2014. His election affidavit records his profession as agriculture and business, and declares no criminal cases against him.
Before contesting the Assembly he served as a member of the Kolhapur Zilla Parishad, the district council — the tier of elected local government that handles rural administration across the district. He contested the 2024 Assembly election on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket; his family had earlier been associated with the Indian National Congress.
02 At a glance
Profile at a glance
- Full name
- Rahul Prakash Awade
- Date of birth
- 22 September 1978
- Constituency
- Ichalkaranji Constituency no. 279, Kolhapur district
- Party
- Bharatiya Janata Party
- Assembly
- 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Term 2024–2029
- In office since
- 23 November 2024
- Education
- Post-graduate B.Com, Shivaji University, Kolhapur (2011); MBA, NIMS University, Jaipur (2014)
- Declared profession
- Agriculture and business
03 Background
Three generations in the same constituency
Ichalkaranji has returned a member of the Awade family to the Assembly in seven of the eleven elections held since the seat was created in 1978.
Rahul Awade’s grandfather, Kallappa Awade, won the seat in 1980. His father, Prakashanna Awade, held it across five terms — in 1985, 1995, 1999 and 2004 for the Indian National Congress, and again in 2019 as an independent. Rahul Awade succeeded him in 2024.
That continuity matters less as lineage than as working knowledge: the family’s public life has been bound up with the textile economy, the co-operative sector and the civic affairs of the same city for four decades.
04 Public journey
A dated record
Each entry below is drawn from a public record or a dated news report.
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22 September 1978
Born
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2011
B.Com, Shivaji University, Kolhapur
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2014
MBA, NIMS University, Jaipur
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Before 2024
Member, Kolhapur Zilla Parishad
Elected office in the district council before entering the Assembly.
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23 November 2024
Elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Won Ichalkaranji with 1,31,919 votes — 60.68% of votes cast — and took office the same day.
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16 January 2026
First general election to the Ichalkaranji Municipal Corporation
He led the Mahayuti campaign in the city’s first corporation election. The BJP was reported as the single largest party with 43 seats.
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5 June 2026
Re-elected to the MACCIA Governing Council
Returned unopposed to the Governing Council of the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture for a second term.
05 The office he holds
What the seat carries
A Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is one of 288 elected representatives in the lower house of the state legislature. The office carries three standing responsibilities: to represent the constituency in the House, to take part in legislation and debate, and to pursue the constituency’s administrative business with the departments of the state government.
Ichalkaranji sits within the Hatkanangle Lok Sabha constituency, so much of the city’s business is carried jointly with its Member of Parliament and with the Ichalkaranji Municipal Corporation.
Where this profile comes from
Biographical and electoral details on this page are taken from the member record published by PRS Legislative Research, the 2024 election affidavit published by MyNeta (Association for Democratic Reforms), and the encyclopaedia entries for Rahul Awade and the Ichalkaranji Assembly constituency. Dated items from 2026 carry their own source on the News page. Nothing on this website is published without a traceable source.