About Sana Malik Shaikh, MLA Architect. Lawyer. Legislator.

Sana Malik Shaikh represents Anushakti Nagar (AC 172) in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. She won the seat in November 2024 for the Nationalist Congress Party, polling 49,341 votes to become the first woman the constituency has sent to the Vidhan Bhavan. Her father, Nawab Malik, held the seat before her; she brings two professions of her own to it.

Both were learnt in Mumbai, the city she was born and grew up in. After her HSC (Science) at Mithibai College, she studied architecture at Rizvi College of Architecture (B.Arch, 2004–2009), where she was President of the Student Council and headed the 10th International Conference of Human Habitat, and later law at Rizvi Law College (LL.B., 2022–2024), under the University of Mumbai. One taught her how neighbourhoods are planned and built; the other, how the rights of the people living in them are defended.

She has practised as an architect since 2009. After an internship at ARK Reza Kabul Architects and a first post as Junior Architect at Team One Architect, she was Partner and Principal Architect at Dadamiya Associates from 2011, and since 2018 has been Designated Partner and Principal Architect at Dadamiya Infrastructure LLP. Registered with the Council of Architecture since 2010 and a Chartered Valuer with the Indian Institution of Valuers, she was named Young Architect of the Year by Accommodation Times in 2018.

Her first campaign came in 2017, for Beat No. 165 in the BMC's L Ward. Party work followed: Vice-President of the Rashtrawadi Yuvati Congress in Maharashtra from 2020, then State Spokesperson for the NCP. Through the COVID years, her relief kitchens and hospital coordination made her a familiar face across Mumbai's east long before she held office.

Her public work reaches beyond the party. In 2017 she sat on the BMC's Hoarding Committee and Town Vending Committee for L Ward as the architect member, and she is a trustee of the Rehbar Foundation (since 2019) and Managing Trustee of the Dadamiya Foundation (since 2022). Her social work includes free cataract operations and spectacles; heart check-up, blood donation and cancer detection camps; free books and computer training; self-defence classes for girls; ration distribution during COVID-19; flood relief; and cyber-crime awareness. As a student she organised a candle march against the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, and in 2017 she took part in a protest and dharna over poor services for patients at K. B. Bhabha Hospital, Kurla.

In 2024 the people made it official: 49,341 votes, and a place among the 78 first-time MLAs of the 15th Assembly. Since 2025 she has served on the Assembly's Women and Child Welfare and Minority Welfare Committees and on the Government of Maharashtra's Youth Policy Committee, and in 2026 she became National Secretary (Minority & Women) of the Nationalist Congress Party. She received the Lokmat Lokneta Sanman in 2024.