Sanyogita Rane

Sanyogita Rane Sardesai (20 August 1923 – 12 January 2017) was Goa's first woman parliamentarian, elected as the Member of Parliament of North Goa in the year 1980 on Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) ticket.

[1] She was the mother of Vir Chakra decorated (posthumous), Second Lieutenant Jayendra Rane of the fifth Garhwal Rifles.

She was elected on the Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) ticket, becoming Goa's only woman MP to win Lok Sabha polls.

She was also part of the Mid-day Meal Programme of Mine-Labourers' Children of North Goa, since 1976.

[citation needed] Rane died, aged 96, at her residence at Curchirem, Sanquelim, in North Goa.