MARGAO
The Nuvem Congress burst into celebrations no sooner party candidate Assuciana Rodrigues defeated Congress-turned-BJP MLA Wilfred D’Sa’s candidate Dr Breezy Barretto, with local party leaders saying the result showed that the people of Nuvem have shown its place to traitors, who had quit the party over a year ago.
Elections for the Nuvem seat turned out to be a close affair, with the candidate fielded by the Nuvem MLA won round one by a slender margin, before the Congress candidate wiped out the lead and won the seat by a margin of 151 votes.
Local Congress workers, including Everson Vales, Pausilipio Dourado, Raju Cabral, Tony D’Costa and others went into a celebratory mode outside the counting hall as news trickled in of Assucianna’s victory.
Everson warned that the ZP election result is just the beginning and predicted that a Tsunami will hit the traitors, who had ditched
the Congress party to join
the BJP.
“Today, the people of Nuvem have shown the place to a traitor. But, this is just the beginning. Those who had betrayed the people’s mandate will be shown the door in 2022,” he warned.
Pausilipio said the victory assumes all the more significance given that there was no candidate willing to contest the Nuvem seat.
“All of us got together and decided to field Assuciana,” he recalled, while thanking the people for electing the Congress candidate.
Raju Cabral said the message from the election result is clear that people are angry with the government.
The Congress candidate thanked the people for the mandate, saying she will leave no stone unturned to fulfill their expectations.
The Congress workers relished the victory in Nuvem, claiming the BJP MLA along with the sarpanchas and most of the panchayat workers had all rallied behind Independent candidate Dr Breezy for the Nuvem seat.
“But the people of Nuvem were with us. We had the blessings of the Almighty”, remarked Tony D’Costa.
