Suresh Kuso Amonkar (15 May 1952 – 6 July 2020) was an Indian politician.

Biography

He was elected to the

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from

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in the

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and 2002 Goa Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was Minister of Health, Social Welfare, and Labour & Employment in Francisco Sardinha cabinet from 1999 to 2000 then Minister of Health, Labour & Employment, and Factories and Boilers in First Manohar Parrikar cabinet. He lost the

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to the Congress Candidate Gurudas Gawas, he ran as an independent candidate in 2008 By-Election after Gurudas Gawas death as the party had allotted the ticket to youth leader Pramod Sawant and he lost the election to Gurudas Gawas brother Pratap Prabhakar Gauns. He joined rebel

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's Goa Suraksha Manch in November 2016 and was allotted Sanquelim seat in the

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where he received 3,831 votes and came third. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in July 2020.

References

1952 births 2020 deaths Goa MLAs 1999–2002 People from North Goa district Goa Suraksha Manch politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Goa Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India Goa MLAs 2002–2007 {{Goa-BJP-politician-stub