Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar


Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar 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.

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. In 2007, Chikhalikar, joined Lok Bharati political outfit during municipality elections there, contesting elections against the Indian National Congress. In 2012 Chikhalikar joined the Congress Party and in August 2014, Chikhalikar joined the Shiv Sena. In 2024 Chikhalikar joined the Nationalist Congress Party Ajit Pawar to get a ticket from Loha Kandhar Assembly Constituency.

Positions held