Patil was a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (Upper House) from 1960 to 1967 and of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (Lower House) from 1967 to 1978, contesting and winning the elections of 19 from Shirpur. However, he did not serve his sentence and broke out of jail, going undercover in Lucknow for a while, before he was caught out. Some of these activities were violent, and Patil was arrested, tried and imprisoned for twelve long years. Through AISF, Patil took part in various activities aimed at subverting British rule in India. Founded in August 1936, the AISF the first national Indian union of students. In 1939, aged only 14, he became the president of the All India Students' Federation (AISF), which is the student wing of the Communist Party of India (CPI). Patil began his career as a radical and a freedom fighter, and was attracted to the Communist movement as a teenager. Patil had been an active politician from a young age, and has been associated with several political parties, including the Communist Party of India (CPI), the Congress party, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. He was the father of Indian film actress Smita Patil. In 2013, he was presented with the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award. Post-independence, he was associated with various political parties and had been member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and even the Rajya Sabha for one term. He began his social activism at an early age when he participated in the Indian independence movement. Shivajirao Girdhar Patil (5 March 1925 – 22 July 2017) was an Indian social activist and politician from the state of Maharashtra.
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