the goan I network
PONDA
The fate of 74 candidates, many of them backed by the Congress, BJP, and MGP, were sealed in the ballot box, as 76.43% of the electorate in Ponda city voted on Sunday to elect the new Ponda Municipal Council (PMC).
Voting in all 26 polling booths across 15 wards of the municipality took place peacefully and without any untoward incident, except for some tense moments in Ward 11, where MGP workers and Ponda’s Congress MLA Ravi Naik were engaged in a heated discussion.
Returning Officer Vishal Kundaikar told The Goan that the entire election process was conducted in a peaceful manner.
“Voting started at 8 am and ended at 5 pm. It was smooth and peaceful. There were no any untoward incidents.” Kundaikar said.
A total of 6,148 male voters and 6,061 female voters took participated in elections to the PMC and counting will take place in the administrative building at Ponda on May 7.
Election staff were at the Ponda administrative building till late evening to handover the ballot boxes and records.
In the morning, long queues were witnessed at many polling stations and the lines tapered off in the afternoon, before picking up again in the evening, when voters stepped out in large numbers.
