Manikrao Kokate is a politician from

Nashik District Nashik district, also known as Nasik district, is a district in Maharashtra, India. The city of Nashik is the administrative headquarters of the district. Nashik is well known for the production of wine. Nashik is also known as Mini Maharashtra, ...

of Maharashtra State. He is currently MLA of Sinnar Assembly Constituency on NCP Ticket. He has won from Sinnar assembly constituency 5 times. He has unsuccessfully contested as Independent candidate for 2019 Lok Sabha Elections from

Nashik Lok Sabha Constituency Nashik Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. Vidhan Sabha segments Presently, after the implementation of delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 20 ...

Political career

He started his political journey with

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(INC) at young age. He left the Congress and joined the

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(NCP), which was founded by

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in 1999. After NCP denied him ticket for Sinnar Assembly Constituency, he switched to

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and won the seat in 1999 and 2004 Maharashtra Assembly elections. Later he joined the rebellion of then Shivsena leader

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and joined Congress along with Rane. He won from Sinnar for third time in 2009 assembly election on Congress ticket. He again switched to BJP for 2014 assembly election and was defeated by Shivsena candidate Rajabhau Waje. In 2019 Loksabha Elections, he fought as independent candidate from Nashik Lok Sabha seat, he was defeated by Shivsena candidate. He once again switched to NCP for 2019 assembly elections, he won the Sinnar assembly seat for 4th time by very thin margin. In the 2024 assembly elections, he won by a huge margin against the NCP Sharad Pawar's candidate, Uday Sangale.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kokate, Manikrao Living people Maharashtra politicians Maharashtra MLAs 2019–2024 Maharashtra MLAs 2024–2029 Year of birth missing (living people)