Former Commissioner for NRI Affairs Dr Wilfred Menezes Mesquita passed away while undergoing treatment at the P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Mumbai around 11.30 pm on Monday. He was 70.
Dr Mesquita was the founder vice-president of the then ruling party Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (Youth Wing) in 1974. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Goa since 2007. He was the vice-president and spokesman of BJP.
Dr Mesquita was a former cabinet minister of Revenue, Environment, Sports and Youth Affairs, Power, Law and Judiciary and Legislative Affairs, government of Goa. He was also the former chairman of the Forest Corporation of the government of Goa.
Born in Divar on April 14, 1949, Dr Mesquita was a Doctor of Medicine having graduated from the Goa Medical College in 1975, specialising in Medicine (Obs. & Gyn.) from G S Medical College and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mumbai in the year 1979, having done his training as a resident doctor at Nowrosjee Wadia Maternity Hospital and KEM Hospital, both in Mumbai.