Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: ANI |As much as this point: Feb 14, 2022, 06: 49 AM IST
The destiny of 301 candidates will likely be sealed in Digital Voting Machines (EVMs) on Monday as voters in Goa will exercise their electoral rights to elect disclose Assembly representatives in 40 constituencies for the formation of the subsequent disclose authorities.
The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) is being challenged by the Congress, Trinamool Congress, and Aam Admi Celebration (AAP) in a multi-cornered electoral contest in Goa. Particularly, Goa is going through its first Assembly elections after the death of the faded Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar who had established BJP in the coastal disclose.
The Panaji Assembly seat has its have importance in the electoral politics of the disclose. Worn Union Minister for Defence Manohar Parrikar, who had represented Panaji, had been a 3-duration of time Chief Minister of the disclose. Alternatively, Utpal Parrikar, son of faded Chief Minister Manohar Parikkar, would possibly be contesting as an honest candidate from his father`s Panaji Assembly seat in opposition to the BJP. Utpal Parrikar had resigned from the BJP after he used to be denied a designate from the Panaji Assembly constituency.
The BJP has fielded the Congress fetch collectively turncoat Atanasio “Babush” Monserrate from the Panaji seat. He had joined the BJP alongside with nine other MLAs in 2019 to abet the incumbent Chief Minister Pramod Sawant appreciate steadiness in the disclose.
Sawant is contesting from the Sanquelim constituency in opposition to Congress` Dharamesh Saglani while the BJP candidate from Margao seat, Manohar Ajgaonkar will is pitched in opposition to Congress nominee Digambar Vasant Kamat. There are three political leaders in the fray from Goa`s Valpoi seat — BJP`s Vishwajeet Rane, Goan revolutionary fetch collectively`s Manoj Parab, and Congress` Manisha Shenvi Usgaonkar.
From the St Cruz constituency, the AAP has fielded Amit Palekar, who would possibly be its chief ministerial face, BJP`s Tony Fernandes and Congress` Rudolf Fernandes. Michael Lobo who quit the BJP is contesting from the Calangute seat in opposition to the BJP`s Joseph Sequeira.
The BJP leader Chandrakant Kolwalkar is contesting from the Quepem constituency in opposition to the Congress candidate Ailton Da Costa. In explicit, BJP is contesting Goa polls on the total 40 Assembly seats for the first time and fielded Chief Minister Pramod Sawant from the Sanquelim seat in opposition to Congress` Dharamesh Saglani.
Goa Assembly has a strength of 40 contributors out of which the BJP currently has 17 legislators and enjoys the strengthen of legislators from Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Celebration (MGP), Vijay Sardesai of the Goa Forward Celebration (GFP), and three independents. The GFP and MGP each believe three MLAs. The Congress, on the opposite hand, has 15 MLAs in the House.
The unheard of poll campaigning by the total political parties for 40 Assembly seats in Goa concluded on Saturday evening. The counting of votes in poll-sure Goa will occur on March 10.
