Panaji: Both the candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa on Tuesday filed their nominations in the respective constituencies in presence of chief minister Pramod Sawant, party’s Goa President Sadanand Shet Tanavade and others.
Pallavi Dempo, a business woman, filed her nomination in South Goa in presence of Sawant and Tanavade.
She was accompanied by hundreds of supporters as she walked into Mathany Saldanha complex in Margao to file the nomination. The South Goa Parliamentary seat is currently held by Congress MP Francisco Sardinha.
In North Goa Parliamentary constituency at Panaji, Shripad Naik filed his nomination in presence of Sawant and Tanavade. Naik said that one round of campaigning is already over and the second phase will start now.
He said that he has been getting overwhelming response from voters.
In Panaji, Chief minister Sawant said that the BJP will win both the seats. “We will win with a margin of one lakh votes in North Goa and 60,000 in South Goa,” he said.
Sawant said that PM Narendra Modi has given various guarantees through the manifesto. “The people of Goa have also given the guarantee that they will elect both the BJP candidates,” he said.
