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PANJIM: After marching BJP-backed panel to thrilling victory in CCP elections, the Panjim MLA Atansio Monserrate has left it to the State party leadership to decide on the next City Mayor and its Deputy.
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The BJP-backed panel won 25 out of 30 seats it contested in the Panjim City Corporation (CCP) election. The MLA feels that the party will have to introspect as what went wrong in those five seats that they lost.
“I take the complete responsibility for the defeat in those five wards. But we still need to introspect and work hard,” Monserrate said.
Stating that he is just a worker of the party, the MLA said that he has left it to the party leadership to decide on who will be next Mayor and deputy of the city. “I have no role to play in it. We will abide by the name that party select,” he said to HERALD.
When asked whether he will recommend any name, Monserrate replied in negative. “I will put no recommendation or condition. I was just heading the party panel and campaign. My role is over with the victory,” he said.
Of the total 25 elected, there are two former mayors- Uday Madkaikar and Carolina Po and two- Vasant Agshikar and Asmita Kerkar- who have donned the hats of Deputy Mayor earlier.
Earlier on the day of polling, Monserrate son Rohit, who won from ward 3, had expressed his willingness to be the next city Mayor stating “would love to take up the challenge”.
