He was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in April, 2007 in a by-election from Jalgaon constituency in Maharashtra.
[1] In March 2014, Jawale was re-nominated for 16th Lok Sabha from Raver constituency, but a week after BJP changed its nomination to Raksha Khadse.
[2] In October 2014, he contested the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election from Raver Vidhan Sabha constituency[3] and defeated his nearest rival, Shirish Chaudhari of INC, by margin of 10,000 votes.
Jawale lost the Raver Vidhan Sabha seat in 2019 to Shirish Chaudhari.
[citation needed] Jawale died of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in India at the Bombay Hospital in Mumbai on 16 June 2020, fifteen days after his 67th birthday.