Vilas Muttemwar Politician
Vilas Muttemwar (orig. Muthyamwar) (born 22 March 1949) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.He is former minister of state (independent charge) of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of India. He lost the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to BJP candidate Nitin Gadkari from the Nagpur (Lok Sabha constituency). He had earlier been elected to 7th (1980-84), 8th, 10th 12th (1998-99), 13th (1999-2004), 14th (2004-09) and 15th Lok Sabha (2009-14). Muttemwar's family ethnic Telugu (Perkiwar) settled in Maharashtra with no known direct links to Andhra Pradesh and in fact, do not even speak Telugu.