Gaikwad lost the Latur Lok Sabha seat by around 7000 votes in 2009. He won
2014 Lok Sabha elections from
Latur. In 2017, he alleged he was being ill-treated at airports because he shared the same surname as
Ravindra Gaikwad, who had assaulted an airline employee. In 2019, BJP replaced him with Sudhakar Shringare. ==References==