Gajanan Kirtikar

Gajanan Kirtikar is Leader of Shivsena and a Member of Parliament (MP) from Mumbai North West (Lok Sabha constituency) in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He has been a Member of Legislative Assembly from Malad assembly constituency in Mumbai from 1990 to 2009. He was state minister for home in Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party Government.

He has been elected to the Parliament of India. In the 2014 General elections (16th Lok Sabha), he defeated Gurudas Kamat, by a margin of approximately 1,83,028 votes, to win from the Mumbai North West constituency in Maharashtra. In the 2019 General elections (17th Lok Sabha), he defeated Sanjay Nirupam, by a margin of 2,60,328 votes.

Positions held

 * 1990: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (1st term)
 * 1995: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (2nd term)
 * 1995-98 : Minister of State for Home, Tourism, Maharashtra
 * 1998-99 : Cabinet Minister for Information, Public Relations and Transport, Maharashtra State
 * 1999: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (3rd term)
 * 2004: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (4th term)
 * 2006: President, Sthaniy Lokadhikar Samiti Mahasangha
 * 2007 Onwards: Leader, Shiv Sena
 * 2010: President, Mumbai Upnagar Kabaddi Association
 * 2014: Elected to 16th Lok Sabha
 * 2019: Elected to 17th Lok Sabha
 * 2023: Appionted as Shiv Sena's leader of Parliamentary Party