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| name = Vasant Velingkar<br />
| image = Vasant Velingkar.jpg<br />
| caption = Official portrait, 1963<br />
| birth_name = Vasant C. Velingkar<br />
| birth_place = [[Goa]], [[Portuguese India]], [[Portuguese Empire]] (now in India)<br />
| death_date = Unknown{{efn|died prior to 1990.}}<br />
| office = [[Goa Legislative Assembly|Member of Goa Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| majority = 6,924 (83.26%){{efn|the majority votes polled may or may not be of [[Dayanand Bandodkar]].}}<br />
| term_start = 11 December 1963<br />
| term_end = 30 March 1964<br />
| constituency = [[Marcaim Assembly constituency|Marcaim]]<br />
| predecessor = ''constituency established''<br />
| successor = [[Dayanand Bandodkar]]<br />
| occupation = {{hlist|Politician|freedom fighter|[[goldsmith]]}}<br />
| party = [[Janata Party]]{{efn|joined in {{circa|1977}} to probably until death.}}<br />
| other_party = [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]] (1963–1977)<br />
}}<br />
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'''Vasant C. Velingkar'''{{efn|also probably known as '''Vassant Madhu Velingkar''' according to [https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3844-goa-1977/].}} was an Indian politician, freedom fighter and [[goldsmith]] who was a former member of the [[Goa Legislative Assembly]], representing the [[Marcaim Assembly constituency]] from 1963 to March 1964. He was a member of the [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Goa Legislative Assembly |url=https://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/member_detail.php?mem_id=222 |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=www.goavidhansabha.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Assembly |first=Goa, Daman and Diu (India) Legislative |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ij8IAQAAIAAJ&dq=vasant+velingkar&pg=PA14 |title=Debates; Official Report |date=1967 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Velingkar contested in the [[1963 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election]] from the [[Marcaim Assembly constituency]] on the [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]] (MGP) ticket and emerged victorious by defeating [[Indian National Congress]] candidate by 5,800 votes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-30 |title=Assembly Election– 1963 |url=https://www.ceogoa.nic.in/pdf/PER/Assembly%20Election%20-%201963.pdf |access-date=2022-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830123222/https://www.ceogoa.nic.in/pdf/PER/Assembly%20Election%20-%201963.pdf |archive-date=2022-08-30 }}</ref> He served for about three months and later resigned his office on 31 March 1964 for [[Dayanand Bandodkar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Diu (India) |first=Goa, Daman and |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ch0bkzj3ja8C&q=vasant+velingkar |title=Government Gazette. Boletim Oficial |date=1964 |language=en}}</ref> Following this a [[by-election]] was held within the constituency which resulted in Bandodkar taking charge of the Marcaim constituency, enabling him to later run for the chief ministerial seat in Goa.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}<br />
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Velingkar then unsuccessfully contested in the [[1977 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election]] from the same constituency on the [[Janata Party]] ticket, he lost to MGP candidate [[Krishna Bandodkar]] by a margin of 4,606 votes. He along with his associates were also active in the [[Goa liberation movement]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Z5HAAAAMAAJ&q=vasant+velingkar |title=Who's who of Freedom Fighters, Goa, Daman, and Diu |date=1990 |publisher=Goa Gazetteer Department, Government of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman, and Diu |language=en}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Goa, Daman and Diu MLAs 1963–1967]]<br />
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[[Category:Politicians from North Goa district]]<br />
[[Category:Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Janata Party politicians]]</div>Bharatpediatrist