[10] Vikramsinh Patankar hails from Patan royal family, that participated in the establishment of Hindavi Swarajya.
He held additional charge of Maharashtra's Tourism Ministry in Sushilkumar Shinde's cabinet from July 2004 to November 2004.
[14] During his tenure as PWD Minister, he worked on the completion of Mumbai Pune Expressway[15] and Bandra–Worli Sea Link.
[16] He helped set up one of the largest wind farm in Asia in Patan taluka of Maharashtra.
[5] In 2009, Vikramsinh Patankar won the assembly election from Patan constituency by defeating the Shiv Sena's candidate by a margin of 580 votes.