Subhash Ankush Shirodkar (born 1952) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly, representing the Siroda in the Goa Legislative Assembly.^[1][2]

Shirodkar was served as the Sarpanch of the Shiroda Gram Panchayat from 1978 to 1984.^[2] He was elected to the Goa, Daman, and Diu Legislative Assembly in the 1984 Assembly Elections from the Shiroda constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress.^[3] Shirodkar successfully contested the 1989 Goa Legislative Assembly elections from the Shiroda constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress.^[4] He also won the Goa Legislative Assembly elections of 1994,^[5] 1999^[6] and 2002^[7] from the Shiroda constituency as a candidate of the Indian National Congress.

Subhash Shirodkar lost the 2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election from the Shiroda constituency to Mahadev Naik of the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[8] Shirodkar contested the 2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election from the Siroda constituency as the Indian National Congress party's candidate, but lost to Mahadev Naik of the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[9]

Shirodkar returned to the Goa Legislative Assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate by defeating Mahadev Naik of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election.^[10] Shirodkar quit the Indian National Congress on 16 October 2018 and resigned as the Member of the Legislative Assembly,^[11] to join the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[12]

Shirodkar was a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Goa headed by Pratapsingh Rane from 1985 to 1989 and held the portfolios of Information, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services, Forests, Cooperation and Town & Country Planning.^[2] He also served as a Cabinet Minister in the Ravi Naik Ministry from 19 June 1991^[13] to 18 May 1993 and in the Wilfred de Souza Ministry from 18 May 1993^[14] to March 1994,^[2] where he held the portfolios of Education, Art & Culture, Information & Technology, Sports & Youth Affairs and Inland Waterways.^[15]

He served as a Cabinet Minister in the Pratapsingh Rane Ministry from 16 December 1994^[16] to 29 July 1998 and ^[2][17] in the Wilfred de Souza Ministry from 29 July 1998^[18] to 22 November 1998^[19] and held the portfolios of Industries, Urban Development and Information.^[20][2] From 30 November 1998^[21] to 8 February 1999,^[22] Shirodkar was a Cabinet Minister in the Luizinho Faleiro Ministry and held the portfolios of Public Works Department, Industries and Printing & Stationery.^[23]

Shirodkar served as the Cabinet Minister in the second^[24] Luizinho Faleiro from 14 September 1999^[25] to 24 November 1999 and was entrusted with the portfolios of Urban Development, Education, Archives & Archaeology, Museum & Gazetteers and Official Language.^[26] He was also a Cabinet Minister in the Francisco Sardinha Ministry^[27] from 24 November 1999^[28] to 20 October 2000^[2] with the portfolios of Public Works Department, Mining^[29] and Information.^[30]

Shirodkar also served as the President of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee from September 2008 to 2013.^[31][32] He is a former Chairman of the All Goa Kabaddi Association^[2] and the former President of the Goa Olympic Association.^[33][34]

He is the Chairman^[35] of the Shivgram Education Society,^[36] which manages various educational institutions in Shiroda, Goa. The Shivgram Education Society manages the Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology, Shri Kamaxshi Devi Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Shiroda Higher Secondary School,^[37][38] Shri Brahmadurga High School, School of Symbiosis^[39] and the Daffodils Primary School.^[36]

On 31 October 2018,^[11] Shirodkar was appointed the Chairman of the Economic Development Corporation (EDC), a financial institution of the Government of Goa.^[40]