CORTALIM
Others who were elected as panchas are “ Salvador Fernandes, Cynthia D’Silva, Ezbon D’Souza, Philomena Figueiredo and Rigel Tavares.
Hither to Quelossim, although a separate revenue village was part of Cortalim, which got the status of independent panchayat just before the announcement of State Assembly elections.
The predominantly ST-dominated village has six out of seven ST panchas, while one panch is from OBC community, which was a reserved ward.
In the neighbouring Cortalim Panchayat, Senia Baretto and Raymond De Sa were elected sarpanch and deputy sarpanch respectively.
While Senia defeated Anita Kenkre 6-4 votes in her favour, De Sa was elected unopposed after the nomination paper of Manuel (Manu) D’Silva was rejected for want of a proposer. Educiana Rodrigues alias Baby, who was present for the meeting, left before the voting could take place.
As expected, Martha Saldanha and Ferwin Saldanha were unanimously elected sarpanch and deputy respectively of Cansaulim-Arossim-Cuelim Panchayat.
In Velsao-Pale-Issorcim, Henrique D’Mello and Silvia D’Souza were unanimously elected sarpanch and deputy sarpanch respectively.
