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PANJIM: AAP Goa Convener Rahul Mahambre hailed the people of Benaulim for opting for clean and honest politics and added that AAP’s vote share has doubled from what it has got at the 2017 assembly elections.
He said the party had raised people’s issues like water and power bills and people have responded to the party positively by increasing the vote share of the party all across the State.
Hanzel Fernandes who is a mechanical engineer but practising carpenter thanked AAP for fielding him as a candidate and thanked the people of Benaulim for electing him even though there were heavyweight candidates pitted against him.
He added that if any project is for the betterment of Goa and Goans he would support it while vowing to oppose all things that are detrimental to Goa or Goans.
He listed the need for a health centre in his constituency as the main priority followed by taking up issues of the farmers. He added that he will approach the Chief Minister if necessary to get the problems of his voters resolved.
AAP Benaulim co-ordinator Venzy Viegas said Benaulim has shown the way for rest of Goa to follow and said Benaulim has a lot of issues particularly faced by those involved in traditional occupations like toddy tapping, carpentry, fishing industry and others. “Within a year Goa will see how AAP functions differently as Hanzel will raise these issues and find out some solutions to them,” he said.
Adv Prasad Shahapurkar who was AAP candidate in Morjim constituency pointed out that in some booths AAP got more votes than the BJP.
