This year Vasco carnival parade witnessed two queens with King Momo. Every year King Momo is selected by tourism department with applications from those who aspire to be prospective king. This year we have Russel D'Souza being a King Momo. However on Monday there was chaos in the carnival committee and king when committee decided to have their own local queen from Vasco. The queen this year is Adv Leona Barreto from Curtorim and she accompanied King Momo for the entire carnival period. Local queen was asked to accompany King Momo but the king refused initially as there was a queen already with him for the parade. The committee somehow convinced the king that in the past so many years Vasco carnival had their own queen and at last after consensus and mutual understanding the issue was resolved and king was with two queens for the Vasco carnival. The message from king for carnival was to have fun and frolic for 5 days of Carnival across the State.
