Damodar Barku Shingada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian politician
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Place of Birth: Thane, Maharashtra, India
About Damodar Barku Shingada
- Shingada Damodar Barku (born 1 October 1954) was a five-time member of the Lok Sabha in 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing the Dahanu constituency of Maharashtra state.
- He is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. Corresponding results of elections in the year: 1980: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress 1984: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress 1989: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress 1991: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress 2004: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress Mr Damodar Shingda has a strong support of a heavyweight politician from Dahanu Rd named Shashikant Bari(Ex-Mayor of Dahanu). Mr Shingda lost the Lok Sabha election 2009 to an Independent candidate Mr Baliram Jadhav. The reasons for lost have been reported as: 1)Virar-Vasai belt MLA Mr Hitendra Thakur putting his weight behind Baliram jadhav,due to internal differences with Mr.
- Shingda. 2)The Delimitation process,which made Mr.Shingda lose his votebank to the neighbouring constituency. 3)Also,the Nationalist congress Party workers not extending full support to Mr Shingda,even though there was a tie up between the INC and NCP at national level. Later,Mr.
- Baliram Jadhav extended his conditional support to the INC at the centre, and demanded for establishment of Vasai-Virar Municipal corporation. Mr Ashok Chavan,the chief minister of Maharashtra, took the support from Baliram jadhav with the consent of Mr.
- Damodar Shingda.
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