Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday took a dig at the Congress and the Goa Forward Party (GFP) after its candidates took an anti-defection oath in presence of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
All candidates from the Congress-Goa Forward alliance in Goa on Friday took oath on the Constitution to not defect or resign from the party in the course of their five-year term as legislators, if elected.The oath was administered in the .
The Aam Aadmi Party s chief ministerial candidate for Goa Amit Palekar, a lawyer by profession, owns an ultra luxury Maserati car, even as Congress politician Michael Lobo is one of the richest legislators in the ring for the February 14 polls .
Goa s late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar s son, Utpal, was not denied a ticket, in fact he was offered two other constituencies as options to contest from, the BJP s poll in-charge for the coastal state Devendra Fadnavis said on .
Utpal Parrikar, son of former Goa Chief Minister Late Manohar Parrikar on Saturday said that circumstances forced him to take a decision of contesting as an independent candidate from Panaji in the ensuing Goa Assembly polls.