Sanjay Vinayak Joshi was born in Nagpur on 6th April 1962. He got his primary education from Nagpur. After doing his Mechanical Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur, he started his career as a lecturer in an engineering college in Maharashtra. But soon he resigned from his job to become a full-time pracharak (volunteer) in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Maharashtra. Noting his organizational acumen, he was asked to join BJP in Gujarat in 1988, where the party was politically weak that time. He is known for his good rapport with grass root level workers.
Sanjay Vinayak Joshi became a leading figure in BJP politics in Gujarat. From 1988 to 1995, he worked closely with Narendra Modi as a secretary of Gujarat BJP. A former colleague, Gordhan Zadafia has said of him that “He is a silent