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This misquoted statement cost his party the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) seven seats at the 2017 assembly elections he said. Dhavalikar his comments were also wrongly intepreted in 2014, when he was quoted as saying wearing bikinis on beaches should be banned.“With the Portuguese prime minister comment, the same thing was done as to my comment in bikinis. What I had said about bikinis is that people should not go in bikinis in public places, temples, churches. Panaji: Minister for public works department, Ramkrishna Dhavalikar, who returned last week after an official visit to Portugal, on Monday said he had been misquoted in January 2017 as having asked Portuguese prime minister Antonio Costa to apologise for destruction carried out by colonial Portugal in Goa. In 1510, Adil Shah as a compromise gave Goa to Portugal..