SANGUEM
Upset over the reservation of their ward, angry voters from Ward 1 (Bamonsai) in Sanguem municipality have threatened to boycott the Sanguem Municipal Council (SMC) elections.
Ward 1 of Sanguem municipality has been reserved for ST candidates and voters from the ward have questioned the reservation on grounds that the ward has barely 2% of ST voters.
“By reserving Ward 1 for ST candidates, the State government has done grave injustice on voters from the general category,” claimed Jervis Fernandes, who was aspiring to contest from Ward 1 in the upcoming SMC elections.
Besides Fernandes, a number of voters from Ward 1 also gathered at Bamonsai-Sanguem and threatened to boycott the municipal elections if the reservation in Ward 1 is not changed.
“In the last elections, Ward 7 was reserved for ST and so, the reservation should have been in Ward 8 or 9 for these elections,” said Fernandes.
Angry voters claimed that moving the reservation from Ward No 7 to Ward 1 for the ST community has been done at the behest of political leaders.
