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Jit Arolkar

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ111377773 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jit Vinayak Arolkar is an Indian politician from Goa and a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly. Arolkar won the Mandrem Assembly constituency on the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ticket in the 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election. He defeated Dayanand Sopte of Bharatiya Janata Party by 715 votes.

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The public source identifies “Jit Arolkar” as indian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arolkar, Indian and politician.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arolkar, Indian and politician providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111377773. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jit Arolkar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.