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| office = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency = [[Mumbai North Central (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mumbai North Central]]
| term =1989–1991
| predecessor =[[Sharad Dighe]]
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'''Vidyadhar S. Gokhale''' ([[Devanagari]]: विद्याधर गोखले) (4 January 1924 – 26 September 1996) was a political activist, a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] playwright, and an editor of a Marathi newspaper, ''[[Loksatta (newspaper)|Loksatta]]'' (लोकसत्ता), from [[Maharashtra]], India. He was originally from [[Amravati]].

== Writing career ==

He wrote novel ''Jhanjhawat'' (झंझावात ) and the following musical plays:
* ''Suvarna Tula'' (सुवर्णतुला) (1960)
* ''Panditraj Jagannath'' (पंडितराज जगन्नाथ) (1960)
* ''Mandarmala'' (मंदारमाला) (1963)
* ''Madanachi Manjiri'' (मदनाची मंजिरी) (1965)
* ''Jai Jai Gauri Shankar'' (जय जय गौरीशंकर)
* ''Bawannkhani'' (बावन्नखणी)

He formed Ranga Sharada Pratishthan (रंगशारदा प्रतिष्ठान) to stage the above plays.

He presided over [[Marathi Sahitya Sammelan]] in [[Satara (city)|Satara]] in 1993.

== Political career ==

He had represented Mumbai North Central in [[9th Lok Sabha]] in 1989–91 as [[Shiv Sena]] candidate. Throughout his life, he was affiliated with socio-political organizations like [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS]], [[Hindu Mahasabha]] which are proponents of [[Hindutva]] ideology, and was associated with their leaders like [[Veer Savarkar]], [[Pu Bha Bhave]], [[Balasaheb Deoras]].

== Personal life ==

He had married two sisters before polygamy was outlawed, and thus had two wives. Gokhale's grandson, [[Omkar Dadarkar]], was among the upcoming singers in the early 2010s.

==External links==
* [http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3281.htm Official Biographical Sketch in Lok Sabha Website]
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