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Vishnu Savara (1 June 1950 – 9 December 2020) was a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. His parents belonged to a family of farmers residing in the village of Galtare in Wada, a tehsil in Palghar district.^[1] Savara, a cabinet minister for tribal development^[2] in the government of Maharashtra,^[3][4] was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Wada constituency in 1990, 1995, 1999, and 2004.^[5] In 2009, after delimitation, he won the Bhiwandi Rural Vidhan Sabha election.^[6] In the 2014 assembly election, Savara won the Vikramgad Vidhan Sabha seat.^[6]

Savara completed his Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1973, and was a senior cashier at Dairy Project Dapchari-Dahanu from 1973 to 1976.^{[citation needed]} In 1976, he was hired by the State Bank of India after a competitive examination and worked in Boisar, Talasari from 1976 to 1980.^{[citation needed]}

Since university, Savara has been a member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.^{[citation needed]} In 1980, he left the State Bank of India to work for the BJP. That year, Savara was the BJP candidate for the Wada Maharashtra Legislative Assembly constituency^[7] (now Bhiwandi Rural). He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Wada or Bhiwandi Rural in 1990, 1995, 1999, 2004 and 2009, and in 2014 for Vikramgad.^{[citation needed]}

He died on 9 December 2020 after being admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, for a few days for cirrhosis.^[8]

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