He also held the cabinet post in the Ministry for Education, Forest and Higher Education and has a record of being elected for 6 terms to the State Assembly, a record held by him from Puttur Constituency www.putturtown.com and one term from Nagari After De-limitation, Puttur constituency is dissolved and it is merged with Nagari.
It is spoken in the regions of Sagar, Sirsi, Yellapur Siddapur, Honnavar, Kumta, Puttur, Gokarna etc. where there is a higher density of Havyakas in relation to other places.
Vincent Michael Conçessao was born on 28 September 1936 at Puttur in South Kanara district, Karnataka state, the fifth of eight children in a middle-class family.
Hailing from Puttur in Coastal Karnataka, Shobha became associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh at a very early age, one of the few women full-time workers of the Sangh parivar.