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PANAJI
Addressing all candidates of Aam Aadmi Party and select volunteers at a meeting held on Tuesday, at a venue in Dona Paula, Gomes who chaired the meeting also announced that the candidates and volunteers would go door-to-door once again to thank the people for coming out in large numbers to vote.
Gomes congratulated all the candidates for their enthusiastic and clean campaign but at the same time came down heavily on theEC’s machinery for its abject failure to curb the use of money in last couple of days of the election.
“I will say it on record that the Election Commission has miserably failed to stop distribution of money and liquor across Goa on the eve of the elections,” Gomes said in his address to the candidates and others. He however, expressed confidence that the party would emerge victorious on the counting day.
“Despite enormous amount of money and muscle power deployed by the opponents, it is clear that the people of Goa have ‘silently’ and overwhelmingly voted for change. The results will be a resounding slap on the face of corrupt politicians of Goa,” Gomes said.
He said, the results on March 11 will be a huge surprise to the so-called political pundits. AAP has already got engraved in the hearts of Goans with our unique and clean style of campaigning and will further build up on its strengths very soon, he added.
All candidates of AAP also spoke of their personal experiences and were all in praise for the party’s revolutionary commitment to clean and ethical politics. Several of the candidates also described how money was flowing in their respective constituencies at the fag end of the campaign and right up to voting day.
In several cases, the AAP candidates also filed complaints of code violations and gross illegalities. These complaints will be vigorously pursued under the ‘corrupt practices’ provisions of the Representation of People Act, it was resolved. AAP state treasurer, Rahul Mahambre, said that the party’s campaign has been one of the cleanest and most unconventional in the history of Goa.
“It was fought with the most frugal budget and every rupee raised and spent is accounted,” Mahambre, a reputed Mapusa-based chartered accounted, said.
