MARGAO: Matilda D’Silva on Wednesday filed her nomination as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) by-elections in Navelim constituency. She was accompanied by AAP ZP member of Benaulim constituency Hanzel Fernandes and villagers of Navelim, Dramapur and Telaulim.

Matilda said, “necessity of basic facilities is the need of the hour.” “I will strive to provide better health care to the people, resolve the garbage issue in the constituency and try to improve power supply to the villages,” said D’Silva.

When asked what made her arrive to the decision to contest the by-election, she claimed that villagers asked her to contest the elections as she has been doing a lot of social work in the villages.

AAP spokesperson Surel Tilve, who accompanied Matilda to the Returning Officer’s office, said that people all over India are looking at AAP as an alternative to the corrupt system that has been ruling for all these years.

“AAP candidates won in the panchayat elections held in Maharashtra, we won 27 seats at the Surat elections in Gujarat and just today we have won 4 of the 5 seats at MCD in Delhi where the BJP scored zero,” he said.

He urged Navelim ZP constituency people to vote for AAP for a better future and Matilda hoped the people will do so.