Bhikajirao Jijaba Khatal-Patil (26 March 1919 – 16 September 2019),[1] popularly known as Dada or Khatal Saheb was an Indian politician.

He represented the Sangamner constituency of Maharashtra and was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.

B. J. Khatal-Patil was born in a Maratha family on 26 March 1919 at Dhandarphal, a small village few kilometres from Sangamner town in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra, India.

He married Prabhavati Khatal, daughter of then Congress leader and MLA Shri K. B. Deshmukh.

He entered the Maharashtra legislative assembly for the first time in 1962 from Sangamner, representing the undivided Congress Party and then he never looked back.

and then as Minister of Law & Judiciary, Food and Civil Supplies, Irrigation, PWD etc.

In the general elections of 1980, Congress (I) won a majority in Parliament and came to power under the leadership of Indira Gandhi.

After leaving politics for the past 25 years he practised yoga and meditation.

of Maharashtra, declared him as dead, after receiving a fake call from an unknown person claiming to be his daughter.

He appealed to the higher authorities to pardon the people responsible for the wrongdoing.