Ganesh Naik
Minister of State Excise
Government of Maharashtra
In office
November 2009 – October 2014
Chief MinisterAshok Chavan
Prithviraj Chavan
Succeeded byEknath Khadse
In office
November 2004 – February 2009
Chief MinisterVilasrao Deshmukh
Ashok Chavan
Minister of Environment
Government of Maharashtra
In office
November 2009 – October 2014
Chief MinisterAshok Chavan
Prithviraj Chavan
Succeeded byRamdas Kadam
In office
November 2004 – February 2009
Chief MinisterVilasrao Deshmukh
Ashok Chavan
Minister of Labour
Government of Maharashtra
In office
March 2005 – February 2009
Chief MinisterVilasrao Deshmukh
Ashok Chavan
Minister of Environment & Forest
Government of Maharashtra
In office
June 1995 – May 1998
Chief MinisterManohar Joshi
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2019
Preceded bySandeep Naik
ConstituencyAiroli
In office
2004–2019
Preceded bySitaram Bhoir
Succeeded byManda Mhatre
ConstituencyBelapur
In office
1990–1999
Preceded byJanardan Gauri
Succeeded bySitaram Bhoir
ConstituencyBelapur
Personal details
Born (1950-09-15) 15 September 1950
Navi Mumbai (formerly NEW Mumbai)
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
(From 11 September 2019)[1]
Other political
affiliations		Nationalist Congress Party
(1999-2019) Shiv Sena
(before 1999)
ChildrenSanjeev Naik
Sandeep Naik
ResidenceNavi Mumbai
OccupationPolitician, 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

  1. ↑ Sutar, Kamlesh Damodar (11 September 2019). "Maharashtra polls: Advantage BJP, as top Congress, NCP leaders to join party today". India Today. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  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.
  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.
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