Sanjay Raut


Sanjay Rajaram Raut is an Indian politician from Shiv Sena party. He is a member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is also the Executive Editor of Marathi newspaper Saamana which is published by Uddhav Thackeray, the Shiv Sena party leader.
Sanjay Raut is also the writer of the biographical film, Thackeray, a biopic about Bal Thackeray, the founder of Shiv Sena, released in 2019.
He belongs to the Somvanshi Kshatriya Pathare Panchkalshi, an ethnic community of Hindu society in Maharashtra, India.

Controversies

After the arrest of the two girls who posted and liked a comment on Facebook about their view of Mumbai shutting down after the death of Bala Saheb Thackeray, he justified saying "We support the police's action, the Facebook comments could have led to a law and order situation."
In April 2015, he made controversy by saying the voting rights of Muslims should be revoked for some years to ensure the community is not used for vote bank politics. In Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna he wrote in a column "Till Muslims are used as vote-banks, they have no future. This is why Bal Thackeray had demanded that Muslims' voting rights be taken away."

Connection with underworld

Mr. Raut confessed that he was in contact with underworld, have met Dawood Ibrahim and he has ability to also warn him and also had warned him once.Narayan Rane immediately reacted that Raut's tongue must be cut and he does not think that Raut has daring to meet the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim

Positions held