As the Goans are gearing up to vote to elect their next government, all eyes are on key candidates and constituencies. While the poll equations are quite different. This time many prominent parties like Congress, BJP, have competition as the Trinamool Congress, Shiv Sena-NCP, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have decided to enter and made the contest even more interesting. Other parties in the fray are the Revolutionary Goans, Goencho Swabhimaan Party, Jai Mahabharat Party and Sambhaji Brigade besides 68 independent candidates.
Altogether, 301 candidates are in the fray from 40 assembly seats while there are over 11 lakh voters eligible to exercise their franchise. While the Congress-GFP, BJP, TMC-MGP have fielded 40 candidates each, 39 candidates are in the fray on the AAP ticket. Of the key candidates are incumbent Chief Minister Pramod Sawant of BJP from the Sanquelim constituency, Leader of the Opposition Digambar Kamat of Congress from the Margao seat and Utpal Parrikar from the Panaji seat.
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