CANACONA
Eight candidates have staked claim to the Canacona assembly seat, as filing of nominations ended on Friday.
On Friday, 6 nominations comprising 3 dummy candidates and 3 second nominations by some candidates were filed taking the overall total to 14 nominations in Canacona constituency.
According to Returning Officer Uday Prabhudessai, three dummy nominations were received from BJP (Savita Tawadkar), Congress (Vaishnav Pednekar) and AAP (Harish Pagi). Also, BJP nominee Ramesh Tawadkar, Congress nominee Janardhan Bhandari and Independent candidate Isidore Fernandes submitted a second set of nominations on Friday.
All 14 nominations will be taken up for scrutiny on Saturday and the last day for withdrawal will be till 3 pm on Monday. The eight candidates are Ramesh Tawadkar (BJP), Isidore Fernandes (Ind), Mahadev Dessai (TMC), Janardhan Bhandari (Congress), Prashant Pagi (RG), Adv. Anoop Kudtarkar (AAP), Vijay Poi Khot and Kanaya Pagi (Independents).
