VALPOI
Interesting fight will be seen in wards 6,7,8, and 9 of Sankhali Municipal Council at the elections scheduled on May 6. Candidates in these wards are visiting house to house in a bid to convince voters for their support.
The election is a prestigious issue for local BJP MLA and Speaker of Goa Assembly Dr Pramod Sawant.
The BJP seems to be on a sticky wicket as many of its supporters are campaigning against each other.
Some of its strong supporters are hobnobbing with the Darmesh Saglani panel which is working against Sawant.
Four candidates have filed their nominations from ward 6. Vibha Desai, who is a sitting councillor from this ward, expressed confidence of her victory. She is pitted against Rupesh Gawade, Raya Parsekar and Aakanksha Sutar.
The result in this ward is likely to be unexpected due to split in votes.
Five candidates have filed their nominations from ward 7. Bramhananad Desai, Sakharam Naik, Vinod Pednekar, Rajendra Posnaik and Yashwant Naik are the candidates in this ward.
Ward 8 is reserved for women. Radhika Satoskar, Tanuya Shirodkar, Sugra Shaikh, Asira Khan, Nihal Khan, Saroj Desai are the six candidates who will battle it out from this ward.
Existing councillors Damodar Ghadi and Narayan Relekar, Dashrath Azgaonkar and Umesh Mandrekar
are four candidates who have filed their nominations from ward 9 which is reserved for OBC.
