MAPUSA
Having lost the race for the Congress ticket, councillor of Mapusa Municipal Council Tarak Arolkar has decided to contest the election as an Independent candidate from Aldona.
“It’s quite unfortunate that the high command of Congress did not give me the ticket for Aldona constituency. I was asked to join the party with the promise of a ticket, but they bluffed. Service for the cause of the people, irrespective of the religion is my passion and I will continue to do the same,” Arolkar said.
“We are in need of good leaders. It’s high time now that non-issuing of a ticket by Congress cannot stop me from marching ahead. I have thought of fighting this election as an Independent candidate,” he added, in a statement released here.
Arolkar, a Mapusa councillor representing ward 7 which comes under the Aldona constituency in the assembly elections had quit BJP and joined Congress last month.
An acolyte of Congress candidate, Michael Lobo, he was banking on Lobo’s influence to bag the ticket but lost out to loyalist Carlos Ferreira.
He said Goa was going through a crisis even as attempts were made to sell the State to others for a petty amount of money.
“It's high time that we all should get united to get rid of such leaders who have given nothing but misery, unemployment, increasing crimes against women,
shootouts, drug trafficking and so on. I came into politics not because I wanted, but it was the demand of my people to serve them and clean the system,” he said.
