Narendra Keshav Sawaikar is a politician from Goa India and a member of the

16th Lok Sabha Members of the 16th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2014 Indian general election. The elections were conducted in 9 phases from 7 April 2014 to 12 May 2014 by the Election Commission of India. The results of the election were declared on 16 M ...

. He represented the South Goa seat.

Personal life

He was born on 29 December. He completed his SSCE from M.I.B.K. High School, Khandepar, Ponda in 1982. After completing his HSSCE from the Dhempe Higher Secondary School in

Panaji Panaji (; also known as Panjim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. Previously, it was the territorial capital of the former Portuguese India. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi river estuary ...

, he pursued

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from the

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in 1987. Sawaikar achieved a degree in

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

(

LL.B Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...

) from the

Goa University Goa University is a public state research university headquartered in the city of Panaji, in the Indian state of Goa. In addition to Panaji ( Taleigão Plateau Campus), it has a campus in Margao, Mapusa, Ponda, Old Goa and Vasco da Gama. Th ...

in 1994. His wife is a teacher by profession.

Political and legal career

Sawaikar was elected as the Chairman of the Students' Council of

from 1989 to 1990 and 1990 to 1991. He entered legal profession in the year 1995-96 as a junior under Justice

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, the former Chief Justice of

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. He was the Standing Counsel for Union of India in the High court of Bombay at Goa in the year 2001 to 2004 and the Additional Govt. Advocate for Govt. of Goa in the High Court in the year 2002 to 2004. He joined the

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In 1997 and served as general secretary for nine years. In 2007, he was appointed as state secretary of

's Goa unit and in 2009 appointed as state general secretary again till today he is General secretary of BJP Goa Pradesh. He also served as the Chairman of the Goa State Law Commission. Being associated with the Goa Bagayatdar Sahakari Kharedi Vikri Sanstha Maryadit- the state's largest cooperative society since 2006, also he served as the society's Chairman. He contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from South Goa seat and was defeated by

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of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

. He contested 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the South Goa seat as BJP candidate. He won the election and became a member of the

. On 5 June 2014, he took oath as member of the

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Election results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sawaikar, Narendra 1972 births India MPs 2014–2019 Living people Lok Sabha members from Goa People from South Goa district Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Goa