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HON.SIDDHARTH SANJAY PATIL

President

His highness Hon’ble Dada was only octogenarian dynamic young man having seen 86 spring of his vibrant life as unparalleled, undisputed leader of masses. The Konkan Education Society was just a sapling of 24 branches when he took over as president in 1977, but as a present it has manifested itself into a spectacular growth with 105 branches spread over in the vicinities of Raigad, Thane, and Sindhudurg District. Konkan Education Society is a movement not merely as institution. He enjoyed a long tenure of 27 year as MLA and looking to competence and logical bent of mind he was honoured twice with the challenging position of opposition party leader of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

He was the only criminal Lawyer of paramount eminence appearing for the poor in the court without charging anything since 1950. One of the distinguished authored a book on him entitled “Fukatya Vakil”. He rendered unflagging selfless yeoman service in the domain of education to ensure the upliftment of masses. Dada’s life was mission where there was no scope for commission. He was the champion of down-trodden, grate liberator, and emancipator of mankind. He was quit fortunate to be blessed with the company of Bharatratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in his budding age as a school going boy. Konkan Education Society under his able leadership and guidance prestigious. “Adarsh Shikshan Sanstha” award from Government of Maharashtra for rendering un conditional social service and setting new educational milestone to the unprivileged and underprivileged strata of society. Dada was also recipient of Savitribai Fule- Fatima Shaikh, Balasaheb Arekar award for his outstanding contribution and missionary drive of imparting the education to the last man of the society. He was chairman of Maharashtra State Homeopathy Medical Colleges federation and President of Janta Shikshan Mandal, Alibag. He was a bibliophile voracious reader, erudite and multi faceted luminous personality to closely emulated to expend the horizon of knowledge by discipline the ignorance of mind by the light of knowledge.