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In all, 13 candidates majority of them from BJP filed their nominations for the Zilla Panchayat elections in Bardez on Tuesday.
Eleven of the candidates who filed their nominations were from BJP while two independents also filed their papers before the Returning Officers in Bardez.
BJP’s Dattaprasad Dabholkar filed his nomination from Calangute while the saffron party’s Kartik Kudnekar and his dummy Ashley Agnelo Lobo also filed their nominations from
Socorro constituencies.
Similarly, BJP’s official candidate Radhika Sawant filed her nomination from Penha-de-France. Smita Kalangutkar has also filed from the same constituency as the BJP’s dummy candidate.
Rupesh Naik has filled his form as the BJP candidate from Reis Magos, while Karan Govenkar has also filed as the dummy BJP nominee in the same constituency.
In Siolim, Sanisha Toraskar who is re-contesting on the BJP ticket has filed her nomination and Savita Govekar has also filed her nomination as the dummy candidate for the party.
Niharika Mandrekar has filed her papers as BJP candidate from Anjuna and her dummy is Nidhi Shirodkar.
The two Independents who have filed their nominations are Pallavi Dabholkar from Siolim and Umesh Kauthankar from Colvale.
The Congress and Aam Aadmi Party candidates are yet to open their account and are expected to file their nominations on the last two days.
Waste Management Minister Michael Lobo and former tourism minister Dilip Parulekar accompanied the BJP candidates who filed their nominations on Tuesday.
Several village sarpanchas and BJP karyakartas were also present on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, Waste Management Minister, Michael Lobo said BJP has given good candidates for Calangute, Socorro, Penha-de-France and Reis Magos ZP election and all the four candidates will win with
a big margin.
“During our door-to-door campaign we have received good response from the voters. I am confident that all the four candidates will get thumping victory,” Lobo said.
The Waste Management minister said that Mhadei issue has been going on for the last 10 years and it will not have any effect on the
ZP polls.
“I am confident Goa will get justice on the Mhadei issue. The opposition instead of working with the government on Mhadei is only interested in trying to create issues,” Lobo said.
He also said that ZP polls cannot be considered as the semi-final to the 2022 assembly election as it is fought mostly on village/ward issues.
“Last time the ZP result and the assembly election result were poles apart,” he said trying to reiterate his point. Former tourism minister Dilip Parulekar also spoke on
the occasion.
