Raghunath Tople

Tople was among the many Goan playwrights who made significant contributions to the realm of drama and one-act plays.

[2] Tople, alongside Shantaram Dhond, played prominent roles as key figures within the Maharashtrawadi Aghadi centre located in Mapusa, Goa.

[5] Tople first contested in the 1963 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election on the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ticket and emerged victorious with a majority of 4,511 votes.

[6] In the initial session of the Second Goa Assembly, Dayanand Bandodkar, who served as the Chief Minister of Goa at the time, made the decision to remove Tople, along with Ganaba Dessai, A Kadkade, and Dattatraya Deshpande, from their positions in the organizational wing of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.

However, he lost to the Indian National Congress (U) candidate, Jairam Nevagi, by a margin of 5,783 votes.