Damodar Barku Shingada

Shingada Damodar Barku (born 1 October 1954) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Dahanu constituency of Maharashtra and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.

Damodar Shingada has served the Dahanu Constituency 5 times and is a successful Loksabha candidate from Dahanu. Corresponding results of elections in the year:

1980: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress 1984: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress 1989: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress 1991: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress 2004: Damodar Shingada, Indian National Congress

Mr Damodar Shingda has a strong support of a heavyweight politician from Dahanu Rd named Mr Shashikant Bari(Ex-Mayor of Dahanu).

Mr Shingda lost the Loksabha election 2009 to an Independent candidate Mr Baliram Jadhav.

The reasons for lost have been reported as: 1)Virar-Vasai belt MLA Mr Hitendra Thakur putting his weight behind Baliram jadhav,due to internal differences with Mr. Shingda. 2)The Delimitation process,which made Mr.Shingda loose his votebank to the neighbouring constituency. 3)Also,the Nationalist congress Party workers not extending full support to Mr Shingda,even though there was a tie up between the INC and NCP at national level.

Later,Mr.Baliram Jadhav extended his conditional support to the INC at the centre, and demanded for establishment of Vasai-Virar Municipal corporation.

Mr Ashok Chavan,the chief minister of Maharashtra, took the support from Baliram jadhav with the consent of Mr. Damodar Shingda.

It is learnt that Mr Shingda was all set to field his son Sachin Shingda as a MLA candidate from Palghar, but the seat was awarded to Rajendra Gavit. Sachin Shingda is a youth and dynamic politician and has a strong networking base in Dahanu Rd. Now Mr. Sachin Shingada is a Sarpanch Of Pali-Posheri Group Grampanchyayat.