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In a major development, Goa bench of Bombay High Court today set aside the elections of two BJP MLAs from Vasco and Siolim Rajendra Arlekar and Dayanad Mandrekar respectively. The order was pronounced in the chamber this afternoon while large crowds were gathered outside the court to know the outcome of the petition filed by losing candidates Chandrakant Chodankar and Philip Neri of Nationalist Congress Party. After the order to set aside the election was pronounced, respondents appealed for the stay on the implementation of the order which was granted by the Court for 30 days. The respondants\' lawyers said that they would challenge the order in the Supreme Court at the earliest. NCP State chief Dr Wildred deSouza expressed satisfaction on the order and said that the order was expected. He said that NCP wanted to teach them a lesson since they played spoiled sport in the elections. He further said that six more BJP! MLAs would have been disqaulified had the Congress filed similar petitions against Manohar Parrikar, Babu Azgaonkar, Suresh Amonkar, Francisco D\'Souza, Vinay Tendulkar, Ramrao Dessai who were holding office of profit while constesting the last elections. He said,he had asked the Congress to file petition against these candidates but Congress did not give a serious thought to it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org
