Shashikala Kakodkar
Indian politician
Shashikala Kakodkar (7 January 1935 – 28 October 2016), also known as Tai (lit. 'elder sister'), was an Indian politician and a leader of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP). She served as the second Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu from 1973 to 1979, and was the president of the MGP. She is the first and only woman to serve as the Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu.
Early life and background
Shashikala Kakodkar was born on 7 January 1935 at Pernem, Goa, Portuguese India, to Dayanand and Sunandabai Bandodkar as their eldest child. Her younger siblings were Usha Vengurlekar, Kranti Rao, Jyoti Bandekar and Siddharth Bandodkar.
Kakodkar completed her elementary education from the Mushtifund Saunstha and completed her matriculation from the People's High School in Nova Goa (now Panjim). At age eleven, she participated in Goa's liberation movement by shouting patriotic slogans, and was beaten by Portuguese police officers for doing so. She graduated from Karnatak University, Dharwad, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, where she studied anthropology, sociology and history. She completed her postgraduate M.A. degree from Bombay's Elphinstone College.
In 1963, the first democratically held elections to the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu led to her father Dayanand Bandodkar's election as the first chief minister. That year, she married Gurudatt Kakodkar, and was appointed as the general manager of the Bandodkar Group of Companies in 1968.
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