Sawantwadi Road railway station will bear the name of one of the greatest sons of Konkan, Prof. Madhu Dandavate. A physicist by education and a physics lecturer, a socialist by commitment, a freedom fighter by training, an anti-Emergency and pro-Goa liberation hero, and India’s railway minister and finance minister with admirable track records, and among the few people’s politicians that India has had, Prof. Dandavate represented Rajapur, near Sawantwadi, in the Lok Sabha for five consecutive terms from 1971 to 1991. He passed away in November 2005 at the age of 81, having retreated from public life a few years earlier but keenly following India’s trajectory as a nation. The Maharashtra cabinet has done itself proud by........

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