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Shashikala Kakodkar is a prominent leader of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), a political party based in Goa, India, that espouses the cause of the Bahujan Samaj (a term which is interpreted variously, but often taken to mean the masses, or the non-Brahmin section of Hindu society). ==Second chief minister of post-1961 Goa== She is the daughter of Goa's first chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar (Bhausaheb), who ascended to power after the December 1963 elections, following a hotly contested election which saw the polarisation of the electorate on caste and religious lines. Following her father's death in 1973, while still in office, Mrs Kakodkar became the chief minister of Goa, and continued in power till being ousted by a split within her party in early 1979. After the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly was dissolved and elections were announced to be held on 1 June 1977, there was a shift in Goa's local political polarisation. A small group of the United Goans Party (dominated by Dr. Jack de Sequeira ) in the Assembly was dissolved and decided to form the Janata Party. Sarto Esteves' book ''Politics and Political Leadership in Goa'' (p 170) says there was a "lot of hesitation till the last minute" in the MGP, which was in two minds on whether to join the Janata Party or continue its separate identity. Since its unexpected electoral thrashing in the 1963 first Goa elections, the Congress was for the first time a bit more sure of itself because of a large number of United Goans (UG) politicians who had joined its ranks. Then Kakodkar fought the elections from the Bicholim constituency, and was opposed by three other candidates, including Jaisingrao Rane, who had been one of her colleagues in the Assembly, but had left the MGP to join the Janata Party. In that election, the MGP won 15 seats, Congress upped its number to 10, and the Janata Party got three seats, with two going to independents. Several smaller groups joined in the Janata Party, and with the latter's success at the national (all-India) level, the MGP had to seriously consider whether to continue its separate existence as a regional party. There were a number of rumours about plans for its merger with the Janata Party or one of the other national parties. But the MGP led by Shashikala Kakodkar stayed separate, and managed to win a majority—even if a slender one, with 15 out of 30 seats—in the Goa assembly. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shashikala Kakodkar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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