| Manohar Naik | |
| Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start: | (1995-1999),(2004-2009),(2009-2014),(2014 |
| Term End: | 2019) |
| Predecessor: | Sudhakarrao Naik |
| Successor: | Indranil Naik |
| Constituency: | Pusad |
| Office3: | Cabinet Minister Government of Maharashtra |
| Minister3: | Minister of Food and Drug Administration. |
| Term Start3: | Nov 2004 |
| Term End3: | Dec 2008 |
| Predecessor3: | R. R. Patil |
| Office4: | Cabinet Minister Second Ashok Chavan ministry Government of Maharashtra |
| Minister4: | Minister of Food and Drug Administration. |
| Term Start4: | Dec 2008 |
| Term End4: | Nov 2010 |
| Office5: | Cabinet Minister Government of Maharashtra |
| Minister5: | Minister of Food and Drug Administration. |
| Term Start5: | Nov 2010 |
| Term End5: | Sep 2014 |
| Successor5: | Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil |
| Term Start6: | (1 Nov 2004 |
| Term End6: | 4 Nov 2008) |
| Office7: | Guardian Minister of Yavatmal District |
| Term Start7: | (8 Dec 2008 |
| Term End7: | 6 Nov 2009) |
| Birth Date: | 1 July 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Gahuli village, Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India |
Manohar Rajusingh Naik is an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party in the state of Maharashtra. The Naik family has not lost the Pusad (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Seat since 1952.
The Naik family has tremendous influence over Banjara community, a scheduled tribe, which is in significant number in Yavatmal and a deciding factor in Pusad constituency.
Naik was born in 1943 born at the remote Yawali village[1] near Chapdoh dam,[2] 3 km from Karegaon on Karegaon-Ramnagar-Yawali link road off Yavatmal-Ghatanji State highway MH SH 237,[3] in the Yavatmal district in the southern Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. He is nephew of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vasantrao Naik and brother of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Sudhakarrao Naik.[4]
Naik has been elected as Member of the Legislative Assemblyfrom the Pusad (Vidhan Sabha constituency) of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Yavatmal district from 1995 to 1999, 2004–2009,[5] 2009–2014,[6] and 2014–2019.[7] From 2009 to 2014, he was the Minister of Food and Drug Administration in the Government of Maharashtra in India.
He is a Managing Committee member of the Janta Shikshan Prasarak Mandal and the Babasaheb Naik College of Engineering, Pusad.[8]