Prataprao 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 List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

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. History Nanded is mentioned in historica ...

. He is a member of the 13th

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (ISO: ''Mahārāṣṭra Vidhāna Sabhā'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituenci ...

. 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 as the chief minister of Maharashtra twice from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 26 June 1988. Early life and family Chavan was bor ...

, but later has become an opponent of his son

Ashok Chavan Ashok Shankarrao Chavan (born 28 October 1958) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is the son of the late former Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan. He was one of the most influential leaders of Indian National Congress in Ma ...

becoming a close junior associate of former Maharashtra Chief Minister the late

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. He won assembly elections in 2004. In 2007, Chikhalikar, joined Lok Bharati political outfit during municipality elections there, contesting elections against the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

. In 2012 Chikhalikar joined the

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and in August 2014, Chikhalikar joined the Shiv Sena. In 2024 Chikhalikar joined the Nationalist Congress Party

Ajit Pawar Ajit Anantrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: �d͡ʒit̪ pəʋaːɾ born 22 July 1959) is an Indian politician serving as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra along with Eknath Shinde under Devendra Fadnavis since 5 December 2024. He is t ...

to get a ticket from Loha Kandhar Assembly Constituency.

Positions held

* 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Kandhar Vidhansabha as Independent * 2009: Unsuccessfully contested Loha Vidhansabha on

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ticket * 2014: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Shivsena Party * 2015: Elected as Director of Nanded District Central Co-operative Bank *2019: MP- Nanded loksabha Constituency *2024: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Nationalist Congress Party

References

External links

Shivsena Home Page
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