Pramod Sawant | |
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.jpg) Sawant atGoa University in 2021 | |
| 11th 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 | Sudin Dhavalikar Vijai Sardesai Manohar Ajgaonkar Chandrakant Kavlekar |
| Preceded by | Manohar Parrikar |
| Member ofGoa Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 8 March 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Pratap Prabhakar Gauns |
| 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 the House inGoa Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 19 March 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Manohar Parrikar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pramod Pandurang Sawant (1973-04-24)24 April 1973 (age 52) Mapusa, Goa, India |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party (since 2008) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | Panaji |
| Alma mater | Tilak Maharashtra University (MSW) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Pramod Pandurang Sawant (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian politician and formerayurveda medical practitioner[1] who has served as the 11thchief minister of Goa since March 2019.[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]
