Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1961. In the first elections held after India took over the former Portuguese colony, it ascended to power in December 1963 and stayed on, till being ousted from power by defections in early 1979.
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar was an Indian politician and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as Chief Minister of Goa from 14 March 2017 until his death. Previously, he was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served as the Minister of Defence from October 2014 to March 2017. In January 2020, he was posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan.
The Government of Goa is the state government created by Constitution of India and has executive, legislative and judicial authority of state of Goa. It is located in Panaji, Goa.
José Matanhy de Saldanha was a Goan social activist and school teacher, who campaigned for Goan identity, values, and culture. He was also a journalist, a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly and a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Goa with portfolios of Tourism as well as Science and Environment.
Francisco Casimiro Jerónimo Agnelo Pinto de Souza or Francis Dsouza was an Indian Politician from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who served as the Deputy Chief Minister of the Indian State of Goa. He contested from Mapusa as an independent unsuccessfully in 1989.
Laxmikant Yashwant Parsekar is an Indian politician who held the office of the Chief Minister of Goa, a state in India from 2014 to 2017. He was the member of the Goa Legislative Assembly from Mandrem constituency, and he belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Sidharth Sripad Kuncalienker is a former member of Goa Legislative Assembly. He has been elected in a by poll from Panaji constituency in place of Manohar Parrikar. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On 10 May 2017, Kuncalienker resigned in order to allow Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to contest the seat. He lost the 2019 Elections to Monsarette.
Panaji Vidhan Sabha Constituency is one of assembly seats of Goa state.
Vijai Sardesai is an Indian politician who is currently a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly representing the Fatorda constituency and belongs to the Goa Forward Party. Sardesai held the portfolios of Town & Country Planning; Agriculture; Archives & Archeology; as well as Factories & Boilers in the Government of Goa, until his removal from the cabinet of ministers on 13 July 2019.
Dayanand Rayu Mandrekar is an Indian politician from the state of Goa. He was a three term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly representing the Siolim constituency.
Atanasio Monserrate, also known as “Babush”, is an Indian politician from the state of Goa. Monserrate is a three term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly.
The Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017 was held on February 4, 2017 to elect the 40 members of the Goa Legislative Assembly, as the term of current Legislative Assembly ends on March 18, 2017. VVPAT-fitted EVMs was used in entire Goa state in the 2017 elections, which was the first time that an entire state in India saw the implementation of VVPAT.
Goa Suraksha Manch is a political party in Goa a political outfit of the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch which was launched by Subhash Velingkar, a rebel Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader. The party was formed on 2 October 2016.
Pramod Sawant is an Indian politician who is the 13th and current Chief Minister of Goa. Sawant represents the Sanquelim constituency in the Goa Legislative Assembly and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Goa Forward Party (GFP) is a regional political party in the western coastal Indian state of Goa, led by Vijai Sardesai. The GFP fielded four candidates in the 2017 Goa Assembly election and won three seats. It played a crucial, if controversial, role in the return of the Bharatiya Janata Party to power in the March 2017 election results in Goa. The party's motto is "Goem, Goemkar, Goemkarponn". The party was launched on 25 January 2016 and its symbol is the coconut.
Vinoda Datarama Paliencar is an Indian politician and a cabinet Minister in the Government of Goa headed by Manohar Parrikar. He is a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly representing the Siolim constituency and belongs to the Goa Forward Party. Paliencar is the Minister for Fisheries and Water Resources Department. He is a classical singer. Paliencar is the in-charge of the OBC wing of the Goa Forward Party.
Third Manohar Parrikar Ministry is the Council of Ministers in Goa Legislative Assembly headed by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. Manohar Parrikar was sworn in as the 10th Chief Minister of Goa state and his government won the vote of confidence in the Goa Legislative Assembly on 16 March 2017. His government won the vote of confidence with the support of 22 MLAs in the 40-member Goa Legislative Assembly. During the trust vote, Parrikar was supported by the 12 MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party, 3 MLAs of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, 3 MLAs of the Goa Forward Party, 3 Independent MLAs and the sole MLA of the Nationalist Congress Party.
This is a list of minister from Manohar Parrikar cabinets starting from 9 March 2012 to 8 November 2014. Manohar Parrikar is the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in the Chief Ministers of Goa in 9 March 2012.
The Pramod Sawant Ministry came into existence on 19 March 2019. He was serving as the Speaker of the Goa assembly before being sworn in as Chief Minister, after the death of the sitting chief minister Manohar Parrikar.
