Pandurang Arjun Madkaikar (born 10 September 1964) is an Indian politician and a former cabinet minister [1] in the Government of Goa. He is member of the Bharatiya Janata Party [2] and a former member of the Goa Legislative Assembly from the Cumbarjua constituency. [3] [4] [5]
Pandurang Madkaikar was born on 10 September 1964. [6] His wife Janita is the sarpanch of the Old Goa Village Panchayat. [7]
Madkaikar was first elected to the Goa Legislative Assembly from the Cumbarjua constituency in 2002 Assembly elections as a candidate of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party [8] and became the Transport Minister of Goa in the coalition government headed by Manohar Parrikar. [9] He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003 [10] In January 2005, [11] Madkaikar was also allotted the portfolios of Revenue as well as Printing & Stationery.
He quit the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2005 to join the Indian National Congress, resigning as a MLA on 29 January 2005, [12] [13] [14] thereby causing the collapse of the Manohar Parrikar Ministry. [15]
Madkaikar won a by-election in 2005 to the Goa Legislative Assembly the Cumbarjua constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. [16] He was inducted in the Pratapsingh Rane Ministry and served as the Minister for Transport, River Navigation and Sports & Youth Affairs. [17]
In the 2007 Goa Assembly election, Madkaikar won the Cumbarjua constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. [18] He was appointed as a Cabinet Minister in the Digambar Kamat Ministry on 25 June 2007 with the portfolios of Transport and Social Welfare. [19] [20] Madkaikar was also allocated the portfolio of River Navigation on 17 December 2007. He was dropped from the Cabinet on 12 March 2008. [21]
Madkaikar served as the Chairman of the newly established [22] Goa Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes [23] from 14 February 2011 to 25 January 2012. [24]
Madkaikar won the 2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election from the Cumbarjua constituency as an Indian National Congress candidate. [25] In December 2016, he resigned as a MLA to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. [26] He successfully contested the 2017 Goa Assembly election from Cumbarjua as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. [27]
Madkaikar served as the Minister for Power, Social Welfare and Non-Conventional Energy in the third Manohar Parrikar ministry from 14 March 2017 to 24 September 2018. [28] In June 2018, Madkaikar suffered a brain stroke in Mumbai following which he was admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. [29] [30] He underwent a surgery [31] and is currently recovering. [32]
Since 25 July 2018, the portfolios allotted to Madkaikar were being looked after by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar during the period of his absence. [33] On 24 September 2018, Madkaikar was dropped from the Cabinet along with Francis D'Souza. [34] [35]
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