Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party is a political party in India. It was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961. In the first elections held after the Annexation of Goa by India,it ascended to power in December 1963 and stayed in power 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.
Shashikala Kakodkar,popularly known as Tai;lit. 'elder sister'),was a prominent leader of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP). She served as the Chief Minister of Goa,Daman and Diu on two occasions,and also was the President of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party. She is the first woman to serve as the Chief Minister of Goa,Daman and Diu.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
This is a timeline of Goan history. It overlaps with the histories of other regions in South Asia,the Indian subcontinent,and colonial powers that influenced the region,including Portugal.
The Government of Goa is a state government created by the Constitution of India and has executive,legislative and judicial authority of the state of Goa. It is headquartered in Panaji,the capital city of Goa.
Ramakant Khalap is an Indian politician. He was a member of the 11th Lok Sabha. He is also former deputy Chief Minister of Goa.
The Goa legislative assembly election was held on 3 March 2012,to select the 40 members of the Sixth Goa Legislative Assembly,as the term of Sixth Legislative Assembly ended on March 2012.
JoséMatanhy de Saldanha was an Indian social activist,journalist,former Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly and school teacher,who campaigned for Goan identity,values,and culture. He also served as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Goa with portfolios of Tourism as well as Science and Environment.
Ravi S. Naik is a former chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party politician in Goa,India. He started his career on the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.
Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane is an Indian politician and a cabinet Minister in the Government of Goa headed by Pramod Sawant. He is the son of Pratapsingh Raoji Rane who is a former Chief Minister of Goa and an incumbent Indian National Congress party MLA in the Goa Legislative Assembly. Vishwajit Rane was the Minister of Health,Agriculture &Craftsmen Training in the Government of Goa led by Digambar Kamat from June 2007 to March 2012. Rane resigned as the MLA of the Valpoi Constituency and also from the Indian National Congress on 16 March 2017.
Although a parliamentary democracy,Indian politics has increasingly become dynastic,possibly due to the absence of a party organization,independent civil society associations that mobilize support for the party,and centralized financing of elections. Family members have also led the Congress party for most of the period since 1978 when Indira Gandhi floated the then Congress(I) faction of the party. It also is fairly common in many political parties in Maharashtra. The dynastic phenomenon is seen from national level down to district level and even village level.The three-tier structure of Panchayati Raj established in the 1960s also helped to create and consolidate the dynastic phenomenon in rural areas. Apart from government,political families also control cooperative institutions,mainly cooperative sugar factories,district cooperative banks in the state,and since the 1980s private for profit colleges. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party also features several senior leaders who are dynasts. In Maharashtra,the NCP has particularly high level of dynasticism.
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. He also served as Deputy Chief Minister of Goa in the Government of Goa,until his withdrawal from the cabinet of ministers on 13 July 2019.
Atanasio Monserrate also known as Babush,is an Indian politician who is a three-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly. He is a current member of the Goa Legislative Assembly from Panaji. He was the Member of Legislative Assembly for Taleigao. He is married to Jennifer Monserrate,Member of Legislative Assembly,Taleigao.
Jennifer Monserrate is an Indian politician who is a three-term member from the Taleigao Assembly constituency of the Goa Legislative Assembly. She is the incumbent Cabinet Minister for Revenue,IT,Labour and Employment under Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. She assumed office of Minister of Revenue and IT in July 2019.
Goa Forward Party 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.
Subhash Ankush Shirodkar is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly and represented Siroda in the Goa Legislative Assembly.
Irene Lourenço e Barros or Irene Barros was an Indian politician,INC loyalist and pioneer for woman politicians from the state of Goa. She was the 1st woman to be elected as a Sarpanch of a village in the state of Goa,and the 1st and only woman to serve as president of the Indian National Congress- Goa. She generally used her husband's family surname. According to the Congress party she was probably the 1st female Sarpanch in India.
Nilesh Mohan Naik was an Indian environmental activist and farmworker belonging to the scheduled tribe community. He was shot to death during the Nylon 6,6 agitation at Keri plateau,Ponda. He is popularly known as Goa's first environmental martyr.
Tukaram Bharat Parab,better known as Manoj Parab,is an Indian politician and activist who serves as the party chief and president of the Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP),a non-profit organization he founded in March 2017,which received recognition as a political party from the Election Commission of India in 2022.
