Ramakant Khalap
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Ramakant Khalap | |
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3rd Mandrem | |
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Born | Portuguese Goa, Portuguese Empire (now in India) | 5 July 1946
Political party | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress |
Spouse | Nirmala Khalap |
Children | 2 |
Residence(s) | Mandrem, Goa, India |
Ramakant Khalap (born 5 August 1946) is an Indian politician. He was a member of the
Early life
Ramakant Khalap was born on 5 August 1946 in Mandrem, Portuguese India to a Marathi couple, Dattaram and Satyabhama Khalap. He worked as a school teacher and later as a college lecturer. After this, he completed a law degree, and soon became a famous and successful lawyer of Goa.
Political career
After the death of then
After Shashikala Kakodkar left Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party and joined Indian National Congress, Khalap became leader of Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party in Goa Legislative Assembly. Under his leadership, the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party rose in prominence rapidly, winning eighteen seats in the subsequent elections.
As recorded by the
Khalap was
Khalap has been
There is a school named after him called Ramakant Khalap High School at Mandrem, Goa. He is Chairman of a Multi State Scheduled Co-operative Bank called The Mapusa Urban Co-operative Bank of Goa (Bank of Goa). He formed Bardez Bazaar, a consumers cooperative society to cater needs of consumers of Goa. He was President of the Goa Cricket Association. Ramakant Khalap is actively involved with Konkan Marathi Sahitya Parishad, Samrat Club, Gomantak Marathi Parishad and Kala Academy Goa. Khalap is also a trustee of the Pravara Medical Trust which runs medical and other colleges at Pravaranagar, Maharashtra.
Khalap has several developmental achievements to his credit. As
He was instrumental in forming the
When Khalap became MP on the first day of the house itself in a speech on reference to the late President of India Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Khalap demanded that best remembrance for the late President would be completion of a Bridge at Dhargal on NH 17 whose foundation stone was laid by Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.
All the Lok Sabha members were so impressed that Khalap was successful in getting completion of two bridges, one on NH 17 at
.As Minister of Water Resources of Goa, Khalap completed River Linkage project, linking all the rivers and water bodies and further brought water of Tillari Irrigation Project to Goa ending water shortage of Goa.
Khalap got created the Information Technology Department for Govt. of Goa and was the first IT Minister of Goa. All the notable work of Goa in IT sector is due to Bhaie, even when he was in opposition, Khalap secured interest of ordinary Goans in every field.
As a strong Marathi supporter Khalap secured interest of Marathi in the language issue as official language of the State of Goa, in the Goa Official Languages Act, though Khalap was leader of opposition at the time and the ruling congress party was in favour of
Khalap's tenure as Law Minister was so successful that the Pramod Mahajan famously said that, he is a member of the single largest party in the parliament and he is in opposition".......And He is Mr. Ramakanth Khalap, he is the only member of his party and he is the Government."This is what democracy in India is!
Khalap is a senior leader of Indian National Congress and a member of All India Congress Committee (AICC). Khalap is also a GPCC Executive Committee member, member of Manifesto Implementation Committee and Spokesman of Goa Pradesh Congress.
For a short while he joined
Khalap is a freedom fighter who started his political career as an aid to other freedom fighters working for liberation of Goa from Portuguese rule. He is considered a politician of old block, a non-corrupt principled politician. His opponents, though tried to falsely implicate him, on one hand, people of Goa have continued to keep faith in Khalap, on the other hand, those opposing Khalap are themselves found to be charge-sheeted for scams and corruption.[citation needed]
Khalap was also the Chairman of the Goa State Law Commission with Cabinet Minister Rank. As the Chairman of the Law Commission, Goa he drafted bills to make revolutionary changes in Revenue Administration and Revenue Courts in the State of Goa. He also worked on amendment of Portuguese laws of Goa along with other members of the Law Commission.
Khalap is the Founder Chairman of the International Arbitration Centre Goa.
Personal life
Khalap is a
References
- ^ "Ramakant Khalap turns 56 | undefined News". The Times of India. 5 August 2001.
- ^ "Congress". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
- ^ Congressman Ramakant Khalap’s daughter-in-law gets AAP nomination for Goa polls