He is a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), the state's lower house representing rural Jalgaon constituency.
[4][5] In 2022 Gulab Patil resigned from minister post of Uddhav Thackeray's cabinet, left Shiv Sena and joined rebel leader Eknath Shinde during political crisis.
Shinde with his more than 40 MLAs demanded break of alliance from Nationalist Congress Party–Indian National Congress and demanded Uddhav Thackeray form government with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
It caused split in the party, at the end Shinde formed government with latter and became CM and Patil appointed minister of Water supply and sanitation.
In 2023 the faction took over Shiva Sena by the decision of Election Commission of India (ECI).