Balwant Wankhade
Indian politician
Balwant Baswant Wankhade is an Indian politician serving as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Amravati since June 2024. He is a Member of the Indian National Congress from Maharashtra.
Political career
Balwant Wankhede's journey from sarpanch to parliamentarian has taken place without any political legacy. Before the 2024 Lok Sabha election, he was elected from Daryapur Assembly constituency in the 2019 Maharashtra elections.
Balwant Wankhade is a resident of Lehgaon in Daryapur taluka, Amravati district of Maharashtra. His political career started from 2005. He was a member of Lehgaon Gram Panchayat till 2010 and also served as its Sarpanch.
Balwant Wankhade served in various capacities in the Republican Party of India (Gavai), being close to party leaders R. S. Gavai and D. J. Wakpanjar. After being elected as a member of the Amravati District Council in 2012, he also served as the Health and Finance Chairman. He was the Chairman of Amravati District Council from 2017 to 2019.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Balwant Wankhade” is indian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Balwant, Wankhade and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “indian politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q80868402. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024, 2019, 2005 and 2010.
Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Balwant Wankhade”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Balwant Wankhade primary sources, Balwant Wankhade archive and Balwant research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Balwant Wankhade”?
- Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Balwant Wankhade” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.