Pramod Sawant | |
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.jpg) Sawant atGoa University in 2021 | |
| Chief Minister of Goa | |
| Assumed office 19 March 2019 | |
| Governor | Mridula Sinha Satya Pal Malik Bhagat Singh Koshyari P. S. Sreedharan Pillai Ashok Gajapathi Raju |
| Deputy Chief Minister | Sudin Dhavalikar Vijai Sardesai Manohar Ajgaonkar Chandrakant Kavlekar Vacant |
| Preceded by | Manohar Parrikar |
| Member ofGoa Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 8 March 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Constituency | Sanquelim |
| Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 22 March 2017 – 18 March 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Anant Shet |
| Succeeded by | Rajesh Patnekar |
| Leader of House,Goa Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 19 March 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Manohar Parrikar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1973-04-24)24 April 1973 (age 52) Mapusa, Goa, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (since 2008) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Tilak Maharashtra University (MSW) |
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Pramod Sawant (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian politician andayurveda medical practitioner who has serving as theChief Minister of Goa.[1][2] He represents theSanquelim constituency in theGoa Legislative Assembly as a member of theBharatiya Janata Party since 2012.[3]
Pramod Sawant was born on 24 April 1973 inMapusa, Goa to Pandurang Sawant.[4] He obtained aBachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery degree from the Ganga Education Society's Ayurvedic Medical College inKolhapur and apostgraduate degree ofMaster of Social Work from theTilak Maharashtra University atPune.[5][better source needed]
Sawant started his electoral career when he contested the 2008Pale Constituency by-election on theBharatiya Janata Party ticket and lost toPratap Prabhakar Gauns of theIndian National Congress.[6] ThePale constituency was abolished due to the delimitation of assembly constituencies.[citation needed]
He contested the2012 assembly election from the newly formedSanquelim constituency and won with 14,255 votes, securing 66.02% of the vote share and defeating Gauns of the Indian National Congress. He also served as the spokesperson of the Goa unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party for a brief period of time.[7]
In the2017 election, Sawantas re-elected from Sanquelim, defeating Dharmesh Saglani of the Indian National Congress with 10,058 votes (43.04%). On 22 March 2017, he was elected as the Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly.[8][9]
He secured a third consecutive victory in the2022 assembly election from Sanquelim, again defeating Saglani again. However, the contest was much tighter than previous years — Sawant won by a narrow margin of just 666 votes, receiving 12,250 votes (47.73%) against Saglani’s 11,584 votes (45.13%).[10][11]
After the death ofManohar Parrikar, the seat of the Chief Minister of Goa fell vacant. Sawant was elected by the Legislative Assembly and later he was sworn in as the 13th Chief Minister of Goa on 19 March 2019.[12][13][14]
Sawant is aMaratha by caste.[12] On 28 May 2005, he married Sulakshana,[15] a teacher ofchemistry[16] at the Shri Shantadurga Higher Secondary School inBicholim. She is also a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and currently the President[17] of theGoa unit of the BJP Mahila Morcha.[18][19] The couple has a daughter, Parthivi, born in 2006.[20]
