VASCO
Thirty-six candidates filed a total of 38 nominations from different wards for elections to the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) on Tuesday, taking the total number of nominations to 92 to date.
Prominent among candidates who filed their nominations were outgoing councillors Bhavana Bhosle (Ward 1), Nilesh Navelkar (Ward 5), Sandesh Mesta (Ward 7) and Lavinia D'souza (Ward 14).
Others who filed their nominations on Tuesday were Shekhar Khadapkar (Ward 2), Shashidhar Palyekar and Uday Naik (Ward 4), Ankita Fadte and Vinni Bhagat (Ward 6), Kalaiyarasi Swami, Shubhangi Vast and Valarie Lobo (Ward 10), Nishita Salgaonkar and Narayan Borkar (Ward 11), Suraj Gonsalves, Prashant Naik and Sajid Khan (Ward 12), Matias Monteiro (Ward 14), Priya Raut (Ward 15), Suresh Naik, Sudesh Amonkar, Manesh Arolkar and Sudeep Dhargalkar (Ward 16), Ameya Chopdekar (Ward 18), Devita Arolkar (Ward 19), Nita Savaiverekar, Sainath Amonkar and Arvind Shinde (Ward 20), Shraddha Mahale, Nutan Shinde, Sanjana Shetye and Deepa Raut (Ward 21), Pundalik Bhosle (Ward 22), Premanand Nanoskar (Ward 23), Sumita Usgaonkar (Ward 24) and Vishnu Kerkar (Ward 25).
Two candidates, Bhavana Bhosle (Ward 1) and Sainath Amonkar (Ward 20) filed two nominations each on Tuesday.
