Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar

Pratap Gaikwad 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 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 Nationalist Congress Party and in August 2014, Chikhalikar joined the Shiv Sena.

Positions held

 * 1999: Unsuccessfully contested Loha Vidhansabha on Congress ticket
 * 2004: Elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
 * 2014: Re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Shivsena Party
 * 2015: Elected as Director of Nanded District Central Co-operative Bank
 * 2019: MP- Nanded loksabha Constituency