PANJIM: Four candidates contesting Taleigao village panchayat elections awere on Saturday declared elected unopposed. With this, there will now be straight fight in seven wards on Sunday, April 28.
Siddhi Kerkar (ward I), Estella D’Souza (ward VI), Sagar Bandekar (award X) and Sydney Paaul Barreto (ward XI) were declared elected unopposed. Estella and Barreto are sitting apanchayat members. They belong to the Taleigao Progressive Development Front backed by Revenue Minister Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate and his wife Taleigao aMLA Jennifer Mon serrate.
Mayur Uskaikar (ward I), Pratima Shirodkar (ward III and VI) and Candido Dias (ward XI) withdrew their nomination papers on Saturday.
The candidates in the fray are Agnelo Da Cunha and Domingos Da Cunha (ward II); Emie Rodrigues aand Helena Pereira (ward III), Madvi Kankonkar and Ratika Gaawas (ward IV), Disha Murgaonkar and Ushant Kankonkar (ward V) Janu Rosario and Viju Diukar (ward VII) and Emman Dias and Maria Fernandes (ward VIII) and Sanjana Diukar and Vanita Veluskar (ward IX).
