PANAJI
As the Ponda MLA Ravi Naik was being allocated portfolios, a no-confidence motion was moved against the Ponda Municipal Council Chairperson Geetali Talaulikar and Deputy Chairperson Jay Sawant by 8 councillors.
Among the eight councillors who have moved this no-confidence motion is Congress councillor William Aguiar.
The BJP has tried its best to get power in the Ponda Municipality for the last four year but they have not succeeded. Now it is looking like BJP will succeed to gain power over this municipality as Ravi Naik has moved to the BJP.
Ritesh Naik, Vishwanath Dalvi, Anand Naik, Virendra Dhavlikar, Archana Dangui, Yatish Sawkar, William Aguiar, Chandrakala Naik have signed the no-confidence motion.
Presently MGP has control over the Ponda Municipality. The five councillors of MGP earlier had the support of Venkatesh Naik, Chandrakala Naik and BJP Shantaram Kolvekar.
Chandrakala Naik has now decided to shift to BJP camp.William Aguiar who had earlier left the BJP camp has also decided to support the BJP camp now.
In the last four years, Ponda Municipality has seen 5 chairmen namely Pradip Naik, Venkatesh Naik, Vishwanath Dalvi, Shantaram Kolvekar, Gitali Talaulikar.
In the last four elections for the Chairperson, at least one councillor has surprisingly shifted to the MGP camp at the last minute and got MGP-backed panel elected. Should this happen this time too, the panel will be retained by MGP again.
