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Manikrao Hodlya Gavit
Manikrao Hodlya Gavit
	Gavit in 2013
Pro-tem Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha
	In office; 1 June 2009 – 4 June 2009
President	Pratibha Patil
Succeeded by	Kamal Nath
Member of the Lok Sabha
	In office; 1981 (bye-election) – May 2014
Constituency	Nandurbar
Personal details
Born	29 October 1934; Dhudipada, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died	17 September 2022 (aged 87); Nashik, Maharashtra, India
Political party	Indian National Congress

Manikrao Hodlya Gavit (Marathi: माणिकराव होडल्या गावित; 29 October 1934 – 17 September 2022)^[1] was an Indian politician from Nandurbar district of Maharashtra, India. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he represented the Nandurbar constituency from 1980 to 2014, winning the Indian general elections consecutive nine times, marking a record.^[2]

Gavit served as a member of the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha. In his 14th parliamentary term, he was Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Manmohan Singh government until 6 April 2008, when he was asked to resign.^[3]^[4] He alleged that Indian National Congress President Sonia Gandhi told him that she was under pressure to remove him.^{[citation needed]} He was elected for the consecutive ninth time from the Nandurbar constituency in the 2009 Indian general election.

Gavit had been appointed a pro-tem speaker of 15th Lok Sabha by President Pratibha Patil. As pro-tem speaker, he performed the Speaker's duties until the election of a new Speaker of the Lok Sabha.^[5] He served as Minister of State for the Social Justice department.

Positions held

Following were some of the political affiliations and representations of Manikrao Gavit.^[6]

1965-71 Member, Navapur Village Panchayat, District. Dhule, Maharashtra
1971-78 Chairman, Social Welfare Committee, Zila Parishad, Dhule, Maharashtra
1978-84 Vice-President, District Congress Committee (Indira) [D.C.C.(I)], District. Dhule, Maharashtra
1980-81 Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly; Chairman, Committee on Social Welfare
1981 Elected to the 7th Lok Sabha
1984 Re-elected to the 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1989 Re-elected to the 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1990-91 Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House
1990-96 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals
1991 Re-elected to the 10th Lok Sabha (4th term)
1991-93 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways (two terms)
1996 Re-elected to the 11th Lok Sabha (5th term)
1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term)
1998-99 Member, Committee on Labour and Welfare
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
1999 Re-elected to the 13th Lok Sabha (7th term)
1999-2000 Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House
Member, Committee on Railways
1999-2001 Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
2000-2004 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
2004 Re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha (8th term)
23 May 2004 Union Minister of State, Home Affairs
2009 Re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha (9th term)
1 June 2009 Pro-tem Speaker
31 August 2009 Member, Committee on Rural Development
7 October 2009 Chairman, Committee on Ethics
22 July 2013 Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment.^[7]