death_date children nationality birth_date term_end constituency death_place imagesize predesessor profession term_start spouse name caption predecessor birth_place party office website date successor religion primeminister native_name article_title birth_name
03 june 2014 pankaja munde pritam munde and yashashri indian 12 december 1949 3 , 1999 june 2014 june 3 , 2014 october 11 beed new delhi 200px chhagan bhujpal politician 26 , 1995 may 2014 may 16 , 2009 march 14 pradnya munde gopinath munde gopinath munde jairam ramesh jaisingrao gaikwad patil nathra village , parali bhartiya janata party minister minister of maharastra of rural development mp for beed deputy chief -lsb- http://www.gopinathmunde.com/ gopinath munde -rsb- 1949 12 12 y nitin jairam gadkari pritam gopinathrao munde nitin jairam gadkari hinduism narendra modi गोपीनाथ मुंडे gopinath munde
 gopinath pandurang munde
gopinath munde

gopinathrao pandurang munde -lrb- december 12 , 1949 -- june 3 , 2014 -rrb- was an indian politician from maharashtra .
he was a senior leader of the bharatiya janata party -lrb- bjp -rrb- and union minister for rural development and panchayati raj in narendra modi 's cabinet , which , however , was short-lived due to his death in a road accident .
he was a member of maharashtra 's legislative assembly -lrb- mla -rrb- for five terms during 1980 -- 1985 and 1990 -- 2009 .
he was also the leader of opposition in the assembly during 1992 -- 1995 .
he had held the post of deputy chief minister of maharashtra in 1995 -- 1999 .
munde was elected to lok sabha in 2009 and 2014 , and served as the deputy leader of the bjp in the lok sabha .
he was appointed in modi 's cabinet and took the oath on 26 may .
he died in a road accident in new delhi on 3 june 2014 .
