Sanyogita Rane Sardesai (20 August 1923 – 12 January 2017) was

Goa Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...

's first woman parliamentarian, elected as the Member of Parliament of

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in the year 1980 on

Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP) is a political party in India. It was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961. The party has its base amongst non-Brahmin Hindu migrants from Maharashtra and their desce ...

(MGP) ticket.

Early life and education

Rane was born on 20 August 1923 in

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. Her father was Captain Dattaji Rao Bhosle. She was married to Major Zoiba S. Rane Sardesai from

Sattari Sattari (Konkani: ''Sot'tori''; IPA: ) is a ''taluka'' of North Goa district in the state of Goa, India. There are 77 villages and 2 towns in Sattari Taluka. The headquarters of Sattari taluka is Valpoi municipal council. It lies in the north ...

. She was the mother of Vir Chakra decorated (posthumous), Second Lieutenant Jayendra Rane of the fifth Garhwal Rifles. She was educated at Gajra Raje High School in Gwalior where she did her matriculation.

Political life

Rane was the

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MP from the year 1980 to 1985. She was elected on the Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) ticket, becoming Goa's only woman MP to win Lok Sabha polls. She also contested unsuccessfully as an independent in 1984 and 1991 Lok Sabha elections. She was an active politician of post Goa Liberation period, as the MP of North Goa in 1980. She was one of the very few women who entered into the field of active politics. Rane was an active social worker. She was a member of the Army Welfare Centre, Bhuj (1952–59) and Mahila Mandal, Bhuj (1953–59) She served as a secretary at Maharani Shanta Devi Gaikwad Graha Shastra Sanstha, Kolhapur (1967—69). She was a member of the Family and Child Welfare Centre, Bicholim, Goa since 1974 and the Mahila Imdad, Goa Branch since 1977. She was also part of the Mid-day Meal Programme of Mine-Labourers' Children of North Goa, since 1976.

Death

Rane died, aged 96, at her residence at Curchirem, Sanquelim, in North Goa. She was survived by two sons and a daughter.

References

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