Dayanand Bandodkar

{{Short description|Indian politician (1911–1973)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Dayanand Bandodkar

| image = Dayanand Bandodkar.jpg

| alt = Dayanand Bandodkar

| caption = Bandodkar in 1963

| image_upright = 0.45

| nickname = Bhausaheb Bandodkar

| birth_name = Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar

| occupation = Politician

| birth_place = Pernem, Goa, Portuguese India

| death_place = Goa Medical College, Bambolim, Goa, India

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|3|12|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|8|12|1911|3|12|df=y}}

| nationality = {{ubl|

• Portuguese
  (until 1961)
• Indian (from 1961)}}

| office = 1st Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu

| children = 5, including Shashikala Kakodkar

| governor =

| term_start = 20 December 1963

| term_end = 2 December 1966

| predecessor = Office established

| successor = President's rule

| term_start2 = 5 April 1967

| termend2 = 23 March 1972

| predecessor2 = President's rule

| successor2 = Himself

| termstart3 = 23 March 1972

| termend3 = 12 August 1973

| predecessor3 = Himself

| successor3 = Shashikala Kakodkar

| office4 = Member of Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly

| predecessor4 = Vasant Velingkar

| termstart4 = 31 December 1964

| termend4 = 1972

| successor4 = Krishna Bandodkar

| constituency4 = Marcaim

| term_start5 = 1972

| constituency5 = Mandrem

| predecessor5 = Anthony D'Souza

| successor5 = Ramakant Khalap

| term_end5 = 12 August 1973

| party = Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (1963–1973)

| relatives = Leena Chandavarkar (daughter-in-law)

}}

Dayanand Balkrishna "Bhausaheb" Bandodkar (12 March 1911 – 12 August 1973)

{{Cite news

|url=http://www.uniindia.com/parrikar-pays-tributes-to-bhausaheb-bandodkar/states/news/1317408.html

|title=Parrikar pays tributes to Bhausaheb Bandodkar

|date=Aug 12, 2018

|work=United News of India

}} was an Indian politician who served as the first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu. Born in Pernem to a Marathi family who had immigrated from Tuljapur in British India,{{Cite web |title=Mining will stay in the doldrums |url=https://www.thegoan.net//mining-will-stay-in-the-doldrums/41276.html |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=The Goan EveryDay |language=en}}{{Cite web |url = http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/bitstream/handle/unigoa/3894/radhakrishnan_n_1994..pdf

| title = Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar: The Architect of Modern Goa

| last = N

| first = Radhakrishnan

| year = 1994

| work = PhD Thesis

| publisher = Goa University

| quote = Dayanand Bandodkar's family was a migrated one. Their family Goddess is the famous Bhavani of Tuljapur in Maharashtra. Dayanand Bandodkar once narrated how the family came from Tuljapur and settled down in Bandiwade in Goa where a portion of the land is known as Bokadwag where they lived. Commercial interest of his father Balkrishna Bandodkar prompted them later to shift to Mapusa in North Goa.

}} he became a wealthy mine owner following the Annexation of Goa.{{cite book |last=Karnik |first=D. B. |title=Goa's Man of Destiny |year=1994 |pages=3–4}} He unsuccessfully sought to merge the territory with the state of Maharashtra. Bandodkar swept the polls in 1963, 1967 and in 1972 while representing the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party {{Cite news |url=https://www.itsgoa.com/remembering-dayanand-bandodkar-first-cm-of-goa/

|title=Remembering Dayanand Bandodkar - first CM of Goa

|date=2016-08-12

|access-date=2018-12-12

|language=en-US

}} and remained in power until his death in 1973.{{cite web|url=http://www.goanews.com/pastcm.htm |title=Assemblywise Chief Ministers of Goa |date=2003-01-20 |accessdate=2007-01-14 |work=Goa News |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061107065300/http://www.goanews.com/pastcm.htm |archivedate=2006-11-07 |url-status=dead }}