Pramod Sawant

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Pramod Sawant
Pramod Sawant at the inauguration of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Chair in Goa University (cropped).jpg
Sawant at Goa University in 2021
11th Chief Minister of Goa
Assumed office
19 March 2019
Children1
Alma mater Tilak Maharashtra University (MSW)
Occupation
  • Ayurveda medical practitioner
  • Politician

Pramod Pandurang Sawant (born Pramod Panduronga Sawant; 24 April 1973) is an Indian politician and ayurveda medical practitioner, who is serving as the 11th and current Chief Minister of Goa since 2019. [1] [2] He represents the Sanquelim constituency in the Goa Legislative Assembly from the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2012. [3]

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Early life and education

Sawant was born on 24 April 1973 in Mapusa, Goa to Panduronga Govind Sawant (later Pandurang Sawant) [4] and Padminim P. Sawant as Pramod Panduronga Sawant. [5] He obtained a Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery degree from the Ganga Education Society's Ayurvedic Medical College in Kolhapur and a postgraduate degree of Master of Social Work from the Tilak Maharashtra University at Pune. [6]

Political career

Sawant started his electoral career when he contested the 2008 Pale Constituency by-election on Bharatiya Janta Party ticket and lost to Pratap Prabhakar Gauns of Indian National Congress. [7] He contested the 2012 assembly election from Sanquelim constituency. He won the constituency by 14,255 (66.02%) votes defeating Pratap Prabhakar Gauns of the Indian National Congress. He also served as the spokesperson of the Goa unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party for a brief period of time. [8] Later in 2017 he was re-elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly from the same constituency defeating Dharmesh Saglani of the Indian National Congress with 10,058 (43.04%) votes. On 22 March 2017, he was elected as the Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly. [9]

Chief Minister of Goa

After the demise of Manohar Parrikar, the seat of the Chief Minister of Goa fell vacant. Pramod Sawant was elected by the Legislative Assembly afterwards and later he was sworn in as the 13th Chief Minister of Goa on 19 March 2019. [10] [11] [12]

Personal life

Sawant is a Maratha by caste. [10] On 28 May 2005, he married Sulakshana, [13] a teacher of chemistry [14] at the Shri Shantadurga Higher Secondary School in Bicholim. She is also a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and currently the President [15] of the Goa unit of the BJP Mahila Morcha. [16] [17] The couple has a daughter, Parthivi, born in 2006. [18]

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