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Who is Amit Palekar?
Amit Palekar is a social worker and an advocate by profession. He is the Chief Ministerial (CM) face of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Goa assembly elections 2022.
He will contest the polls from the Santa Cruz constituency. The lawyer-turned politician belongs to the Bhandari community, one of the largest non-Brahmin caste groupings in Goa.
According to reports, Palekar worked rigorously during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and donated 140 beds to a hospital.
According to reports, Palekar worked rigorously during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and donated 140 beds to a hospital.
He was also in the news when he went on a five-day hunger strike against the construction of an illegal building inside the Old Goa Heritage premises.
The AAP convenor exposed an alleged job recruitment scam at the state-run Goa Medical College (GMC) at Bambolim.
Education and career
Amit Palekar graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Zoology and later received a master’s degree in Constitutional law and Intellectual property rights from Goa University.
To meet his expenses during his college days, he worked as a sub-editor for the Gomantak newspaper. In 1998, Palekar began practising law under a senior lawyer.
In 2002, he qualified for the GPSC examination. A few years later, he became president of the Rotary Club of Panaji Riviera to serve society.
Palekar, whose mother has been the sarpanch of Merces village for around ten years, joined the AAP in October 2021.
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