Pratap Govindrao Chikhalikar Patil (born 2 August 1960) is an Indian politician and

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

leader from

Nanded district Nanded district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, aːn̪d̪eɖ is a districts of Maharashtra, district of Maharashtra state in central India. The city of Nanded is the district headquarters. Officer Members of Parliament *Prataprao ...

. He is a member of the 13th

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly The Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated in the Nariman Point area of South Mumbai in the capital Mumbai. Presently, 288 memb ...

. He represents the Loha Assembly Constituency.

Career

Chikhalikar has been described as close to

Shankarrao Chavan Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan (14 July 1920 – 26 February 2004) was an Indian politician who served twice as Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 26 June 1988. He was Finance Minister of India from 1988 ...

, but later has become an opponent of his son Ashok Chavan becoming a close junior associate of former Maharashtra Chief Minister the late Vilasrao Deshmukh. He won assembly elections in 2004. In 2007, Chikhalikar, joins

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Political outfit during municipality elections there, contesting elections against the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

. In 2012 Chikhalikar joined the

Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the largest opposition party in Maharashtra and is also a significant party in ...

& in August 2014, Chikhalikar joined the Shiv Sena.

Positions held

* 1999: Unsuccessfully contested Loha Vidhansabha on

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ticket * 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly * 2014: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Shivsena Party * 2015: Elected as Director of Nanded District Central Co-operative Bank *2019: MP- Nanded loksabha Constituency

References

External links

Shivsena Home Page
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