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Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar | |
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| Member of Parliament, India | |
| Assumed office 16 May 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Gurudas Kamat |
| Constituency | Mumbai North West |
| Cabinet Minister for Information, Public Relations and Transport, Maharashtra | |
| In office 1998–1999 | |
| Minister of State for Home, Tourism, Maharashtra | |
| In office 1995–1998 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 September 1943 Karwar, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Political party | Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) |
| Children | Amol Kirtikar (Son) |
| Residence(s) | Goregaon, Mumbai |
| Website | gajanankirtikar.com |
Gajanan Kirtikar is Leader of Shivsena and a Member of Parliament (MP) from Mumbai North West (Lok Sabha constituency) in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.[1] 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 1,83,000 votes, to win from the Mumbai North West constituency in Maharashtra.