Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar

Pratap Govindrao Chikhalikar (born 2 August 1960) is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Nanded district. He is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Loha Assembly Constituency.[1]

Prataprao G. Chikhalikar
Member of parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
2019
Preceded byAshok Chavan
ConstituencyNanded
Personal details
Born2 August 1960
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party(2019-present)
Other political
affiliations		Shiv Sena
ChildrenPravin Chikhalikar, Pranita Chikhalikar-Deore
OccupationPolitician

Career

Chikhalikar has been described as close to Shankarrao Chavan, 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.[2][3] In 2007, Chikhalikar, joins LokBharati Political outfit during municipality elections there, contesting elections against the Indian National Congress.[2] In 2012 Chikhalikar joined the Nationalist Congress Party & in August 2014, Chikhalikar joined the Shiv Sena.[4][5]

Positions held
  • 1999: Unsuccessfully contested Loha Vidhansabha on Congress 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[6]
  • 2019: MP- Nanded loksabha Constituency

References
  1. "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". India Today. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  2. "Nanded civic poll verdict upsets CM". Mumbai Mirror. 9 October 2007. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  3. Ananth, Venkat (2 October 2014). "The curious case of independents in Maharashtra politics". Live Mint. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  4. Ekbote, Vinayak (20 August 2014). "चिखलीकरांनी उचलले शिवसेनेचे 'धनुष्य', मतदारसंघावर पुन्हा पकड मिळवण्यासाठी डावपेच". Divya Marathi (in Marathi). Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  5. "Amit Shah's intervention preventing influx into BJP?". The Free Press Journal. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  6. "जिल्हा बँक निवडणूक: प्रत्येक जिल्हा, प्रत्येक निकाल".
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