MLA, Anushakti Nagar Assembly Constituency
MLA for Anushakti Nagar (172), Mumbai, and the first woman to represent the seat. Nationalist Congress Party.
Architect B.Arch, Rizvi College of Architecture
Lawyer LL.B., Rizvi Law College
Legislator MLA, 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Sana Malik Shaikh is the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Anushakti Nagar (AC 172), Mumbai, elected in November 2024 on a Nationalist Congress Party ticket with 49,341 votes. A trained architect and lawyer, she is the first woman to represent the seat and serves on the Assembly's Women and Child Welfare and Minority Welfare Committees.
Your vote gave me a seat in the House. Your trust gives me the duty to use it, every single day.
The priorities behind every question in the House, every letter to a department and every day on the ground.
Selected interventions from her first term in the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
Maiden speech, 19 December 2024
In her first speech in the House, she sought the closure of ready-mix concrete plants in Deonar that she said stood less than 100 metres from homes in Govandi East, in breach of pollution norms. Within days, the BMC ordered the JSW plant shut and served a compliance notice on Relcon.
| Subject | Intervention | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Women's rights | A woman's name, her choiceIn March 2025 she asked that women be free to choose how their names appear in official records: maiden name, married name, or with a parent's name. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar backed the proposal, and a directive with clear naming options followed. | Directive issued |
| Healthcare | Free beds, visible to allThrough a calling-attention motion in July 2025, she showed that charitable-hospital beds reserved for BPL and EWS patients were going largely unused, and pressed for visible signage and live bed availability online. | Calling-attention motion |
| Environment | Quieter, safer decibel limitsShe told the House that residential noise limits of 55 dB by day and 45 dB by night are routinely breached, even inside the Assembly. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis agreed to a survey and to recommend revised limits to the Centre. | Survey approved |
| Culture | Marathi and Urdu, side by sideIn July 2025, with legislators from several parties, she asked the state government to support the Urdu Sahitya Academy's fiftieth-anniversary year. | Cross-party demand |
Praja Foundation, Mumbai MLA Report Card 2026
The Praja Foundation's independent report card scores Mumbai's MLAs on their work in the legislature: attendance, the number and quality of questions raised, and other indicators. Sana Malik Shaikh scored 56.75%. Thirty-three of Mumbai's 36 MLAs were assessed; the Speaker and two ministers were left out because office-holders cannot ask questions in the House.
Her legislative record is also tracked independently by PRS Legislative Research.
Full Assembly recordAnushakti Nagar runs from the scientists' township to the bazaars of Govandi and the docks at Trombay: Mumbai in miniature, represented by Sana Malik Shaikh in the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha.
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Sana Malik Shaikh is the MLA of Anushakti Nagar (AC 172), Mumbai. She was elected in November 2024 as the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate with 49,341 votes and is the first woman to hold the seat.
She defeated Fahad Ahmad of the NCP (Sharad Pawar) by 3,378 votes in the Anushakti Nagar Assembly election of November 2024, polling 49,341 votes.
She belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), where she has been National Secretary (Minority & Women) since 2026. Before her election she served as the party's State Spokesperson and as Vice-President of the Rashtrawadi Yuvati Congress in Maharashtra.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Rizvi College of Architecture and a law degree (LL.B.) from Rizvi Law College, both under the University of Mumbai.
Yes. She is the daughter of veteran Maharashtra leader Nawab Malik, who represented Anushakti Nagar in the Assembly before her.
She is a member of the Women and Child Welfare Committee and the Minority Welfare Committee of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. She also sits on the Government of Maharashtra's Youth Policy Committee.
On 19 December 2024 she asked for polluting ready-mix concrete (RMC) plants in Deonar to be closed. The BMC then ordered the JSW plant shut and served a compliance notice on Relcon. See her Assembly record.
In the Praja Foundation's Mumbai MLA Report Card 2026, she ranked 16th of the 33 Mumbai MLAs assessed, with a score of 56.75%. Her parameter ranks were 1 for attendance, 20 for the number of questions, 20 for the quality of questions and 1 for a clean criminal record. See the report card.
She has been the MLA for Anushakti Nagar since 23 November 2024, as a member of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
Anushakti Nagar (AC 172) covers Anushakti Nagar, BARC Township, Trombay, Cheeta Camp, Mankhurd, Govandi and Deonar. It lies in the Mumbai Suburban district and the BMC's M-East ward, and is part of the Mumbai South Central Lok Sabha constituency.
Use the contact form, email connect@sanamalikshaikh.in, call the office on 022-4604 1633, or bring your documents to a Janata Darbar at the MLA office in Deonar.
