title: Vinayak Nimhan
text: # Vinayak Nimhan
  
  Vinayak Nimhan (died 26 October 2022) was Shiv Sena politician from Pune, Maharashtra. He was member of the 12th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing the Shivajinagar Assembly Constituency. He had been elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for three consecutive terms. For his first two terms, he was elected as a member of the Shivsena. For his third term, he was elected on the Indian National Congress ticket. In Nimhan was defeated in the 2014 assembly elections. He has since then returned to the Shivsena.
  
  Nimhan died from cardiac arrest on 26 October 2022, at the age of 59.
  
  ## Positions held
  
  * 1999: elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
  * 2004: re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
  * 2009: re-elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
  * 2015: appointed as Pune City Chief Shiv Sena
  