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Petition in HC over SC ward reservation in Bastora

A BJP karyakarta on Thursday filed a writ petition before the High Court praying to revoke the reservation and declaring Ward 1 of Bastora Panchayat as general.

MAPUSA:
The petition will be taken up for hearing on Friday for admission and seeking interim relief before High Court, Judge Nutan Sardessai.   
The petitioner, Dnyneshwar Damodar Morajkar, earlier filed a complaint before the Director of Panchayats but failed to get any relief.   
Raising strong objection to the reservation of Ward 1 for SC, Morajkar alleged that the reservation was done with the intent to deprive him from contesting the elections.   
He said not a single person belonging to the SC community exist in Ward 1 although it was shown that 429 voters in the ward belong to the SC.  The petitioner further said all the voters, who have been marked as SC are migrants. TGN
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Reis Magos: Three likely to be elected unopposed

In two wards of Reis Magos Panchayat, one nomination each has been received ensuring that the candidates would be elected unopposed, as a record 1,207 candidates filed their nominations for the 33 panchayats in Bardez.

The Goan Network
Published May 26, 2017, 4:19 AM IST
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MAPUSA:   The nominations for the panchayats elections began on May 18 and ended on Thursday even as Wednesday’s High Court order de-reserving some wards has created uncertainty on filing of nominations in those wards.   Virendra Shirodkar’s nomination was the only nomination received from Ward 7 in Reis Magos, while Siya Nagvekar was the only candidate to file her nomination from Ward 8 of the same panchayat.   Interestingly, in Ward X of Reis…

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