Shashikala Kakodkar, who passed away recently, was the first woman chief minister of which Indian state?
Shashikala Kakodkar, who passed away recently, was the first woman chief minister of which Indian state?
[A]Goa
[B]Maharashtra
[C]Karnataka
[D]Odisha
Goa
Shashikala Kakodkar (81), who passed away recently at Panaji, was the first woman chief minister of Goa. She was the daughter of the former Goa chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar. Kakodkar was active in social and cultural fields and had headed the Bhartiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM), a front demanding mother tongue be made medium of instruction in elementary education.