Deepak Dhavalikar | |
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President of Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party | |
Assumed office 2007 | |
Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2007 –March 2017 | |
Preceded by | Vishwas Satarkar |
Succeeded by | Govind Gaude |
Constituency | Priol |
Personal details | |
Born | Pandurang alias Deepak Dhavalikar Bandora,Goa,Portuguese India |
Nationality |
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Political party | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party |
Relatives | Sudin Dhavalikar (brother) [1] |
Occupation | Politician |
Pandurang alias Deepak Dhavalikar [2] (born 14 May 1958) is an Indian politician who is a former two-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly. He represented the Priol constituency from 2007 to 2017. [3] [4] Dhavalikar serves as the president of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and has played key role in keeping the party alive in Goan politics.[ citation needed ] He was a cabinet minister in the Government of Goa for the period 2012–2016.
Dhavalikar is from the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in 1961. [5] He was sacked from the Laxmikant Parsekar led government in Goa in December 2016.