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Goemkapronn desk PANAJI: MGP President Deepak Dhavlikar speaking to the media, said the opposition Parties would form the next Government in Goa. He said the voters exercised their voting right in favour of change; they wanted Parivartan. “This time, voters will send BJP home. They have seen corruption for the past five years and want to end it through the ballot,” he says. Independent candidate from Ponda Constituency Sandeep Khandeparkar said this election would definitely decide the future of the State. Sandeep is a rebel candidate who was denied a ticket by BJP, contesting as an independent candidate from Ponda.…

Goemkarponn desk PONDA: The Ponda taluka has achieved one of the highest voting percentages in the State, but it is still unclear who would be elected as voters gave mixed reactions. One Vishal Fadte said inflation and unemployment are the main issues and decide voting factors. In Ponda Taluka, Priol recorded the highest voting percentage of 87.73 per cent, followed by Shiroda 82.66 per cent, Marcaim 81.27 per cent, and the Ponda constituency recorded the lowest 77.89 per cent. Voters were in the queue since early morning. Shiroda BJP candidate Subash Shirodkar said BJP would get a lead of a…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: With the turnout of as many as 28114 electorates, voters seems to have turned Canacona’s ‘Khatkhate’ to ‘Kichdi’ amidst claims of widely divisive votings, even as taste and quality will be known only on 10th March, even as 8 candidates are keeping their fingers crossed over the outcome of results. Females outnumbering their male counterparts 13228 (Males) and 14886(Females) (28114 @ 82.11%) turning up to cast their votes at the polling booths in Canacona, have now sealed the fate of 8 candidates out of which 6 have claimed to snatch the victory and represent Canacona in Goa…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Rajesh Kumar IPS has informed the progressive seizure of cash, liquor, freebies, precious metals and narcotics in Goa have been to the tune of Rs 12.72 crore. Assembly elections to 40 constituencies in Goa was held yesterday with a voting percentage of 78. 94 per cent. “The Goa police also seized Rs 6.66 crore cash during Goa elections while Rs 12 crore worth of gold, liquor, drugs etc., seized,” said IGP. According to information, cash worth Rs 6.66 cr, liquor worth 3.57 cr, freebies worth 1.20 cr, precious metals worth 0.02 cr…

AERIAL VIEW Consider this, in 2012, Goa registered an 83 per cent voter turnout, the highest so far, which dethroned the Digambar Kamat led Congress government in State. BJP got an absolute majority with 21 seats. This was after the huge alleged mining scam. Second, in 2017, the voter turnout was 81.97 per cent, and the wave was against the incumbent BJP, which was reduced to just 13 seats from 21. Congress was the single largest party but stole people’s mandate through backdoor politics. Now again, in 2022, the odds are against the BJP for dozens and dozens of reasons…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: With Goa registering a very high voter turnout, the Congress party in the state exuded confidence in forming the government with a full majority. Speaking to ANI, All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Goa, Dinesh Gundu Rao said, “People have come up in large numbers to give a decisive vote and their expression will be seen in the results.” Predicting that there in an “anti-incumbency” wave in the BJP-ruled state, the Congress leader said, “People want BJP out.” “There is a huge anti-incumbency wave and that’s the reason this high number of voting is taking place.…

Goa has voted to elect its 40 new MLAs. With 301 candidates in the fray the people have had an assortment of candidates to choose from. This time around there has been no straight fight in a single constituency but a multi cornered contest with five and more candidates in 38 constituencies while Siolim had the highest with 13 candidates followed by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s Sanquelim with a dozen in the fray. We will now have to wait till March 10th for the counting of votes when 261 of the contesting candidates would lose this battle and have to…