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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar
| image =
| spouse =
| children = Dr. Pramod, Pravin,
Pranita Chikhalikar-Deore,
| honorific_suffix =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1960|8|2}}
| birth_place =
| image_size =
| caption =
| order =
| office3 = [[Member of Parliament]] in [[Lok Sabha]]
| term_start3 = 2019
| term_end3 = 2024
| constituency3 = [[Nanded (Lok Sabha constituency)|Nanded]]
| predecessor3 = [[Ashok Chavan]]
| successor3 = [[Vasantrao Balwantrao Chavan]]
| office = Member of the [[Maharashtra Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start = 2024
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Shyamsundar Dagdoji Shinde]]
| successor =
| constituency = [[Loha (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Loha]]
| term_start1 = 2014
| term_end1 = 2019
| predecessor1 = Shankarrao (Shankar Anna) Ganeshrao Dhondge
| successor1 = [[Shyamsundar Dagdoji Shinde]]
| constituency1 = [[Loha (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Loha]]
| term_start2 = 2004
| term_end2 = 2009
| predecessor2 = Rohidas Khobraji Chavan
| successor2 = ''Constituency Abolished''
| constituency2 = [[Kandhar Assembly constituency|Kandhar]]
| party = [[Nationalist Congress Party]] (Oct. 2024-Present)
| other_party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (2019-2024)
,[[Nationalist Congress Party|NCP]], [[Shiv Sena]], Lok Bharati, [[Congress(I)]].
| occupation = Politician
| website =
}}

'''Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar Patil''' (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 (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Loha]] Assembly Constituency.<ref name="IT-20141103">{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/assembly-elections-2015/story/maharashtra-assembly-poll-results-bjp-shiv-sena-ncp-congress-223847-2014-10-19|title=Results of Maharashtra Assembly polls 2014 |work=India Today|access-date=2015-07-10}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="MumbaiMirror-20071009" /><ref name="LiveMint-20141002">{{cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/Politics/3iOp3YXXbaqE3GWRtqAC1L/The-curious-case-of-independents-in-Maharashtra-politics.html|title=The curious case of independents in Maharashtra politics|last=Ananth|first=Venkat|date=2014-10-02|work=Live Mint|accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref> In 2007, Chikhalikar, joined Lok Bharati political outfit during municipality elections there, contesting elections against the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref name="MumbaiMirror-20071009">{{cite news|url=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Nanded-civic-poll-verdict-upsets-CM/articleshow/15748032.cms|title=Nanded civic poll verdict upsets CM|date=2007-10-09|work=Mumbai Mirror|accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref> In 2012 Chikhalikar joined the [[Nationalist Congress Party]] and in August 2014, Chikhalikar joined the Shiv Sena.<ref name="DivyaMarathi-20140820">{{cite news|url=https://divyamarathi.bhaskar.com/news/MAH-MAR-pratap-patil-chikhalikar-news-in-marathi-divya-marathi-4718162-NOR.html|title=चिखलीकरांनी उचलले शिवसेनेचे 'धनुष्य', मतदारसंघावर पुन्हा पकड मिळवण्यासाठी डावपेच|last=Ekbote|first=Vinayak|date=2014-08-20|work=Divya Marathi|language=Marathi|access-date=20 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="TheFreePressJournal-20140821">{{cite news|url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/amit-shahs-intervention-preventing-influx-into-bjp/|title=Amit Shah's intervention preventing influx into BJP?|date=2014-08-21|work=The Free Press Journal|accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref> In 2024 Chikhalikar joined the Nationalist Congress Party [[Ajit Pawar]] 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 [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] ticket
* 2014: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Shivsena Party
* 2015: Elected as Director of Nanded District Central Co-operative Bank<ref name="ABPMaza-20150507">{{cite news|url=http://abpmajha.abplive.in/maharashtra/district-bank-elction-vote-counting-21156|title=जिल्हा बँक निवडणूक: प्रत्येक जिल्हा, प्रत्येक निकाल}}</ref>
*2019: MP- Nanded loksabha Constituency
*2024: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Nationalist Congress Party

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19981202100332/http://www.shivsena.org/ Shivsena Home Page]
{{17th LS members from Maharashtra}}

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[[Category:1960 births]]
[[Category:Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra]]

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