Manohar Naik

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.

Manohar Naik
Member of the Legislative Assembly
In office
(1995-1999),(2004-2009),(2009-2014),(2014 – 2019)
Preceded bySudhakarrao Naik
Succeeded byIndranil Manohar Naik
ConstituencyPusad
Cabinet Minister
Second Deshmukh ministry
Government of Maharashtra
In office
Nov 2004 – Dec 2008
MinisterMinister of Food and Drug Administration.
Cabinet Minister
First Ashok Chavan ministry
Second Ashok Chavan ministry
Government of Maharashtra
In office
Dec 2008 – Nov 2010
MinisterMinister of Food and Drug Administration.
Cabinet Minister
Prithviraj Chavan ministry
Government of Maharashtra
In office
Nov 2010 – Sep 2014
MinisterMinister of Food and Drug Administration.
Personal details
Born(1943-07-01)1 July 1943
Gahuli village, Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India

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. [1]

Personal life

Naik was born in 1943 born at the remote Yawali village[2] near Chapdoh dam,[3] 3 km from Karegaon on Karegaon-Ramnagar-Yawali link road off Yavatmal-Ghatanji State highway MH SH 237,[4] 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.[5]

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,[6] 2009–2014,[7] and 2014–2019.[1]

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.[8]

References
  1. "Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014". India Today. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  2. Yawali on wikimapia
  3. Chapdoh Dam on wikimapia
  4. Google map route to Yawali via Koregaon-Ramnagar
  5. Manohar Naik's profile on Election Commission of India
  6. 2004 Maharashtra election results
  7. 2009 Maharashtra election results Archived 22 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  8. JSPM and BNCOE board or members


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