Vivekanand Shankar Patil is a politician of the Peasants and Workers Party of India,[1] and the founder of the Karnala Sports Academy.
Patil represented the Panvel constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for three terms.
[3] He ran in the 2014 Vidhan Sabha elections in Uran but received only 55,320 votes, losing to Manohar Bhoir of the Shiv Sena party.
After the election, he threatened to file a public interest lawsuit against a rival politician, Prashant Thakur.
[4][5][6] He has been found guilty of money laundering and arrest order is issued to arrest him by Enforcement Directorate of Government of India on 15 June 2021.