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10 facts to know about Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra's new Chief Minister

Devendra Fadnavis is the newly elected Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Incidentally he is the first person from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to hold this post. His name for the coveted post was unanimously adopted

9. He participated and gave presentations at International Environmental Summit at Honolulu, USA (1999). He attended U.S. National Conference Of State Legislatures at Washington and Nashville, USA (2005). He gave Presentation on ‘Disaster Mitigation And Management in India' at International summit organized by IDRC-UNESCO –WCDR at Davos, Switzerland (2006).

He presented a paper on ‘Natural Disasters Mitigation-Issues On Ecological And Social Risk' at Global Environmental Change Congress at Beijing in China organized by WMO –ESSP (2006).

Fadnavis represented India in ASEM meeting of young political leaders from Asia & Europe at Copenhagen, Denmark (2007).

He presented paper on ‘Energy Security issues' at New Generation Seminar organized by East-West Centre of U.S. federal government (2008).

Devendra Fadnavis was a member of High Level Delegation of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore (2008).

He participated in Global Parliamentarian Forum meet on Habitat at Croatia, Europe (2011) and at GPH Asia regional meet at Malaysia (2012). Fadnavis was a member of delegation invited by United Nations' Habitat at UN headquarters at Nairobi in Kenya (2012).