Ultimately it is the development work and the process of your village/city/town that matters to the Goans. Well done, Atanacio Monserrate. � Gaspar Almeida & www.goa-world.com Team http://www.goa-world.com/credit/credit.htm � � � Taleigao polls: Monserrate panel makes a clean sweep
NT Staff Reporter Panaji March 15: The Taleigao MLA and Town and Country Planning Minister, Mr Atanacio Monserrate-backed panel swept the election to the 11-member Taleigao village panchayat by winning all the seats. The election was held for the first time after the village was delinked from City of Panaji Corporation.� Though, there were some differences between the old BJP workers and the supporters of Mr Monserrate, who has been new entrant to the BJP, the election passed off peacefully on Sunday. The highlight of the election results is all candidates backed by Mr Monserrate got elected, thereby giving a jolt to some old BJP men, who had contested in four wards, including the chief of BJP�s Taleigao block. Mr Monserrate is an architect of the village panchayat body and he had won the assembly election on the promise to revert the village back to the status of panchayat. It was the former Taleigao MLA, Mr Somnath Zuwarkar, who merged Taleigao in to erstwhile Panaji Municipal Council, despite protests from the villagers.� The Minister�s wife, Ms Jannifer Monserrate, who is a novice in politics, has also been declared elected from ward number 6. She polled 380 votes against Mr Minguel Jose Martins, who polled 122 votes. The supporters of the winning panel later took out victory procession from Panaji to Taleigao. Mr Monserrate visited the counting hall after the result was declared. It was for the first time the people residing in posh residential colonies at Dona Paula and Taleigao participated in the village panchayat elections. In ward 1, Ms Anjali Gajanan Naik was declared winner. She polled 627 votes and defeated Ms Geeta Baburao Naik (112). In ward 2, Mr Santan Baretto was declared elected unopposed. While in ward 3, Ms Elsa D�Cunha won the poll by getting 331 votes. She defeated Ms Gorreto Martins (192). In Ward 4, Mr Hanuman Govind Narvekar (469) got elected defeating Mr Mahadev Govind Kunkolikar (237). In ward 5, Ms Saraswati Devidas Murgaonkar got elected by 486 votes against Ms Kaushalya Vasant Shirvoikar (116). In ward 6, Ms Jannifer Monseratte got elected. In ward 7, Mr Janu Mahadev Rosario was declared winner. He polled 646 votes and defeated Mr Narayan Vithal Kunkolinkar (134). While in ward 8, Ms Wilma Rosario Cardozo was declared winner. She got 648 votes and defeated Ms Janifer Mascarenhas (214). In ward 9, Mr Deelip Pandurang Divkar was elected with 433 votes and he defeated Mr James Vaz (185). In ward 10, Mr Candido Carmo Dias won with 697 votes by defeating Mr Xavier Almeida (183). In ward 11, Mr Sanjay Shantaram Naik (468) defeated Mr Sanjeev V Mangueshkar (222).� Mr Monserrate, commenting on the victory of his panel said that the election result is the response of the voters to the developmental works carried out by him in Taleigao village, during his tenure as the local MLA.�� �I have even fulfilled the promise of reverting the Taleigao village back to the panchayat status,� he added.� The mamlatdar for Tiswadi, Mr S V Pilarnkar, who is the returning officer for the election process declared the results and later distributed the certificates to the elected members.� The election for the post of sarpanch will be held next week. ________ Democratic norms flouted during Taleigao panchayat polls: Victoria NT Staff Reporter Panaji March 15: The Congress MLA from Santacruz, Ms Victoria Fernandes today said the Taleigao panchayat election was a �teaser of the modus operandi� which will be adopted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa during the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.� Addressing a press conference at the Congress House she charged that the panel supported by the Minister for Town and Country Planning, Mr Atanasio Monserrate won through money and muscle. Democratic norms were flouted in Taleigao as they had never been in any panchayat elections in the state and �this might set a wrong trend,� she said. Ms Fernandes appealed to the voters in the state to pay no attention to the fear psychosis spread through warnings and threats and ignore the lure of money during the forthcoming Lok Sabha election and vote in the interest of the state and nation.� She denied a report carried in a section of the press that she along with her son, Mr Rudolf Fernandes had campaigned for her daughter, Ms Goretti Martins and her son-in-law, Mr Minguel Martins, who contested the Taleigao panchayat polls. She said that she would raise the issue about the involvement of the Congress MLA, Mr Isidore Fernandes, in the election campaign and later in the victory procession of the Monserrate panel at the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meet.� Ms Fernandes also said that no one, especially women voters, were safe in the Taleigao constituency. She also introduced Ms Farida Bi, a resident of Taleigao, who alleged that a car driven by the Town and Country Planning Minister himself closely followed her car at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) colony on the day of the Taleigao panchayat election.� Ms Farida Bi, who supported the Opposition candidate, said that Mr Monserrate tried to chase her away, at the time, adding that she would lodge a complaint with the police against the Minister.� �If anything happens to me or my children in the coming days, Mr Monserrate should be held responsible for it,� she said. � - Forwarded by www.goa-world.com � __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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