Pratapsingh Rane
| Pratapsingh Raoji Rane प्रतापसिंग रावजी राणे | |
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| 3rd Chief Minister of Goa | |
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In office 7 June 2005 – 8 June 2007 |
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| Governor | S. C. Jamir |
| Preceded by | President's rule |
| Succeeded by | Digambar Kamat |
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In office 2 February 2005 – 4 March 2005 |
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| Governor | S. C. Jamir |
| Preceded by | Manohar Parrikar |
| Succeeded by | President's rule |
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In office 16 December 1994 – 29 July 1998 |
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| Governor |
Gopala Ramanujam Romesh Bhandari P.C. Alexander T. R. Satish Chandran J. F. R. Jacob |
| Preceded by | Wilfred de Souza |
| Succeeded by | Wilfred de Souza |
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In office 16 January 1980 – 27 March 1990 |
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| Governor |
P. S. Gill Jagmohan I H Latif K. T. Satarawala Gopal Singh Khurshed Alam Khan |
| Preceded by | President's rule |
| Succeeded by | Churchill Alemao |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 28, 1939 Sanquelim, Portuguese Goa |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Residence | Sanquelim, Goa |
Pratapsingh Raoji Rane (born January 28, 1939) is an Indian politician from the state of Goa, currently serving as the Leader Of Opposition in the Goa state assembly. He has served as the Chief Minister of Goa six times - from 1980 to 1985, 1985 to 1989, for three months in 1990, from 1994 to 1999, a month in 2005 and finally in 2005–07.
Rane has been a member of the Indian National Congress since the mid-1970s, and was earlier a prominent figure in the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party. In the MGP, he was minister for law and also held other portfolios, in the term beginning 1972.
Rane completed his primary education in SSPMS Boarding school, Pune and later got his BBA degree in the United States. He comes from the prominent Maratha family of the Ranes that dominated politics out of their home in the north eastern pocket of Sattari in Goa. They have had a set of revolts and peace treaties with the Portuguese while the latter were ruling Goa. The family traces their roots to the Rane clan of Marathas.
He dominated politics in Goa for the entire decade of the 1980s, and for part of the 1990s. His achievements include the launching of the Kadamba Transport Corporation government-run bus transport system in Goa which had a poor transportation system, which could still do with further improvements. He started Schools and Colleges in rural areas.
During his tenure as a Chief Minister, and also the Goa University was established. He built a network of all weather roads connecting villages and Towns in Goa. Number of Industrial Estates and Industrial Training Institutes were stated during his tenure which helped Goa to industrialise.
He undertook to build small and big Irrigation Projects in various parts of Goa. He is also a founder member of the International Centre Goa and a founder member of Goa Institute of Management, a premier Management Institute in India.
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