[6] A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he represented the Kamthi Assembly Constituency, being elected from there in 2004, 2009 & 2014.

[7] He was made Secretary of the Bhartiya Janata Party, Maharashtra State Unit in Devendra Fadnavis' team in 2012.

Koradi, located near Nagpur, is the place where he pursued his higher education in the stream of Science & completed first year.

Bawankule's career commenced in earnest in the early nineties, he started "Chhatrapati Sena" and continued its social work till 1994.

Due to allegations of corruption, the BJP did not give Bawankule the ticket to contest Assembly elections in 2019.