Manohar Naik
{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Manohar Naik
|image =
|order =
|office = Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
|term_start = (2001-2004), (2004-2009), (2009-2014), (2014
|term_end = 2019)
|predecessor = Sudhakarrao Naik
|successor = Indranil Naik
| constituency = Pusad
|term_start1 = (1995
|term_end1 = 1999)
|predecessor1 = Sudhakarrao Naik
|successor1 = Sudhakarrao Naik
| constituency1 = Pusad
|office3 = Cabinet Minister
Government of Maharashtra
|minister3 = Minister of Food and Drug Administration.
|term_start3 = Nov 2004
|term_end3 = Dec 2008
|predecessor3 = R. R. Patil
|office4 = Cabinet Minister
Second Ashok Chavan ministry
|minister4 = Minister of Food and Drug Administration.
|term_start4 = Dec 2008
|term_end4 = Nov 2010
|office5 = Cabinet Minister
Government of Maharashtra
|minister5 = Minister of Food and Drug Administration.
|term_start5 = Nov 2010
|term_end5 = Sep 2014
|successor5 = Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
|office6 = Guardian Minister of Nandurbar district
|term_start6 = (1 Nov 2004
|term_end6 =4 Nov 2008)
|office7 = Guardian Minister of Yavatmal District
|term_start7 =(8 Dec 2008
|term_end7 =6 Nov 2009)
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|03|09}}
|birth_place = Gahuli village, Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India
|death_date =
|death_place =
|spouse =
|children =
|alma_mater =
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Manohar Rajusingh Naik is an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party in the state of Maharashtra.
The Naik family has not lost the Pusad (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Seat since 1952.
The Naik family has tremendous influence over Banjara community, a scheduled tribe, which is in significant number in Yavatmal and a deciding factor in Pusad constituency. {{cite news |last1=The Times of India |date=24 November 2024 |title=Pusad’s ‘blue bloods’ have not lost seat since Maha formation |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/pusads-naik-family-the-unbeaten-political-legacy-in-maharashtra/articleshow/115609094.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214114309/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/pusads-naik-family-the-unbeaten-political-legacy-in-maharashtra/articleshow/115609094.cms |archive-date=14 December 2024 |access-date=14 December 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Hindustan Times |date=26 November 2024 |title=Maharashtra polls: Naik family has won Yavatmal's Pusad seat for 72 years |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/unvanquished-naik-family-has-won-pusad-seat-for-72-years-101732561397046.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214114430/https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/unvanquished-naik-family-has-won-pusad-seat-for-72-years-101732561397046.html |archive-date=14 December 2024 |access-date=14 December 2024 |language=en-us}}
Personal life
Naik was born in 1943 at the remote Yawali village[http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=20.240848&lon=78.217624 Yawali on wikimapia] near Chapdoh dam,[http://wikimapia.org/26285425/Chapdoh-Dam Chapdoh Dam on wikimapia] 3 km from Karegaon on Karegaon-Ramnagar-Yawali link road off Yavatmal-Ghatanji State highway MH SH 237,[https://www.google.com.sg/maps/dir/Yawali,+Maharashtra+445002,+India/Karegaon.,+Yavatmal,+Maharashtra,+India/@20.2371962,78.2050391,1534m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x3bd3c142731f5fa3:0x5b662ad7af3441cf!2m2!1d78.2173516!2d20.2410732!1m5!1m1!1s0x3bd3c3e29d12f919:0xed31c828b429d5a0!2m2!1d78.2013265!2d20.2308248 Google map route to Yawali via Koregaon-Ramnagar] in the Yavatmal district in the southern Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. He is nephew of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vasantrao Naik and brother of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Sudhakarrao Naik.[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/AE/S13/partycomp166.htm Manohar Naik's profile on Election Commission of India]
Career
Naik has been elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly
from the Pusad (Vidhan Sabha constituency) of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Yavatmal district from 1995 to 1999, 2004–2009,[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2004/StatisticalReports_MH_2004.pdf 2004 Maharashtra election results] 2009–2014,[http://220.225.73.214/pdff/results.pdf 2009 Maharashtra election results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122084331/http://220.225.73.214/pdff/results.pdf |date=22 November 2009 }} and 2014–2019.{{cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/maharashtra-assembly-poll-results-bjp-shiv-sena-ncp-congress/1/396659.html|title=Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014 |work=India Today|accessdate=2015-07-12}}
From 2009 to 2014, he was the Minister of Food and Drug Administration in the Government of Maharashtra in India.
He is a Managing Committee member of the Janta Shikshan Prasarak Mandal and the Babasaheb Naik College of Engineering, Pusad.[http://www.bncoepusad.ac.in/bncoe/ JSPM and BNCOE board or members]
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Category:People from Yavatmal district
Category:Maharashtra MLAs 2004–2009
Category:Maharashtra MLAs 1995–1999
Category:Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Maharashtra
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