Saturday, May 4

Ranjit Naik Nimbalkar: BJP’s ‘Richest Candidate’ From Madha Constituency

Edited by Hiba Anvar

Ranjit Naik Nimbalkar is fielded as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Madha constituency. He is a political leader who hails from Maharashtra. The 47-year-old MP Naik-Nimbalkar is an Arts graduate from Shivaji University.

The BJP candidate is the incumbent member of Parliament from Maharashtra’s Madha Lok Sabha constituency. Born in 1977, Naik hails from Phaltan, Satara. His parents are Hindurao Naik Nimbalkar and Mandakini Naik Nimbalkar.

He began his political career as a member of Congress and was the grand old party’s Satara district president till 2019 before joining the Bharatiya Janata Party. He contested and won the 2019 Lok Sabha election from the Madha constituency, which gave his political career national exposure.

After entering politics, his family’s political history gave way to his political trajectory in Maharashtra. He has been an outspoken supporter of local development and welfare projects, responding to the needs of his locals.

Naik-Nimbalkar is known as the richest candidate of the saffron party from Maharashtra. He has movable and immovable assets worth 255,96,43,000.

Madha Lok Sabha constituency is one among the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra. The constituency was created in 2008 as part of the implementation of the Presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Ranjith Naik on the BJP ticket won the seat by defeating the NCP candidate by 5,86,314 votes.