Chief Ministers of Goa - Shashikala Kakodkar, Pratapsingh Raoji Rane, List of Chief Ministers of Goa, Manohar Parrikar, Dayanand Bandodkar (Paperback)

Chapters: Shashikala Kakodkar, Pratapsingh Raoji Rane, List of Chief Ministers of Goa, Manohar Parrikar, Dayanand Bandodkar, Digambar Kamat. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shashikala Kakodkar is a prominent leader of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), a political party based in Goa, India, that espouses the cause of the Bahujan Samaj (a term which is interpreted variously, but often taken to mean the masses, or the non-Brahmin section of Hindu society). She is the daughter of Goa's first chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar (Bhausaheb), who ascended to power after the December 1963 elections, following a hotly-contested election which saw the polarisation of the electorate on caste and religious lines. Following her father's death in 1973, while still in office, Mrs Kakodkar became the chief minister of Goa, and continued in power till being ousted by a split within her party in early 1979. After the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly was dissolved and elections were announced to be held on 1 June 1977, there was a shift in Goa's local political polarisation. A small group of the United Goans Party (dominated by Dr. Jack de Sequeira ) in the Assembly was dissolved and decided to form the Janata Party. Sarto Esteves' book Politics and Political Leadership in Goa (p 170) says there was a "lot of hesitation till the last minute" in the MGP, which was in two minds on whether to join the Janata Party or continue its separate identity. Since its unexpected electoral thrashing in the 1963 first Goa elections, the Congress was for the first time a bit more sure of itself because of a large number of United Goans (UG) politicians who had joined its ranks. Then Kakodkar fought the elections from the Bicholim constituency, and was opposed by th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=249752