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 |
| Party | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party |
| Relatives | Sudin Dhavalikar (brother) [1] |
| Occupation | Politician |
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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.