Ganesh Naik

Ganesh Naik
Ganesh Naik
Member of Legislative Assembly; Maharashtra
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 24 October 2019
Preceded by	Sandeep Naik
Constituency	Airoli
Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
	In office; 2005 – 19 October 2014
Preceded by	Sitaram Bhoir
Succeeded by	Manda Mhatre
Constituency	Belapur
Personal details
Born	15 September 1950; Navi Mumbai (formerly NEW Mumbai)
Citizenship	Indian
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party; (From 11 September 2019)[1]
Other political; affiliations	Nationalist Congress Party; (1999-2019); Shiv Sena; (before 1999); ;
Children	Sanjeev Naik; Sandeep Naik;
Residence	Navi Mumbai
Occupation	Politician, Businessman,Builder

Ganesh Naik (born 15 September 1950) is an Indian politician. He is the Bhartiya Janta Party member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly who represented Belapur in the past,[2] and was the Thane Guardian Minister in the state government.[3] He was the minister of Labour, excise and environment in the previous government.

Political career

Ganesh Naik began his career as an MLA in 1990 with Shiv sena but later switched to the Nationalist Congress party in 1999. He belongs to the locally powerful agri community. [4]

Vidhan Sabha election 2014

In the Maharashtra state assembly polls, results for which were announced on 19 October 2014, Naik lost to the BJP candidate by around 1,500 votes. Manda Vijay Mhatre, the winning candidate had left NCP just before the elections, opposing the family rule of the Naik clan in Navi Mumbai. Naik's son, Sandeep Naik, however, was re-elected to the Airoli seat by margin of over 7,000 votes. Earlier in May parliamentary elections, his other son, Dr Sanjeev Naik, had lost his seat to the Shiv Sena by a huge margin.

References

MumbaiSeptember 11, Kamlesh Damodar Sutar; September 11, 2019UPDATED; Ist, 2019 09:19. "Maharashtra polls: Advantage BJP, as top Congress, NCP leaders to join party today". India Today. Retrieved 11 September 2019.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
"Naik's home turf fails to back him". The Indian Express. 26 May 2008. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
"Thane city celebrates Maharashtra's 49th year". The Times of India. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
Thomas Blom Hansen (5 June 2018). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-0-691-18862-1.

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[1] MumbaiSeptember 11, Kamlesh Damodar Sutar; September 11, 2019UPDATED; Ist, 2019 09:19. "Maharashtra polls: Advantage BJP, as top Congress, NCP leaders to join party today". India Today. Retrieved 11 September 2019.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[2] "Naik's home turf fails to back him". The Indian Express. 26 May 2008. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2009.

[3] "Thane city celebrates Maharashtra's 49th year". The Times of India. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 15 May 2009.

[Hansen2018-4] Thomas Blom Hansen (5 June 2018). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-0-691-18862-1.