The figure TOI gave is of 2007 and prior
This time (2012) the deposit amount was doubled at Rs. 10,000/-
114 candidate or more have lost their deposits
That makes it 11.4 lakhs.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabe Menezes" <[email protected]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 6:01 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Trinamool who? Time to call it a day, old boy!
With 215 candidates vying for 40 seats in the Goa legislative assembly,
there were bound to be 175 losing candidates. However, among these 175,
there exists another sub-group of 127 candidates who together contributed
a
tidy sum of over 6 lakh to the exchequer. These candidates polled a meagre
number of votes, and had to forfeit their individual election deposits of
5,000.
Prominent among these are former Goa chief minister Wilfred de Souza who
contested from Aldona constituency. The 84-year-old, who is the Trinamool
Congress (TC) president in the state, secured just 643 votes in a
constituency where 20,289 voters voted. In Bicholim, former transport
minister who was also a former MGP president Pandurang Raut could muster
only 720 votes. Raut was in the NCP before hopping to the Trinamool
Congress before the election.
Interestingly, 19 of the 20 Trinamool Congress party candidates lost their
deposits. The party was viewed by political analysts as being part of a
strategy to leech votes of Congress party candidates.
For full read:-
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/127-candidates-forfeit-5000-election-deposits/articleshow/12181401.cms
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