MARGAO: Unmindful of Covid-19 scare, hundreds of people lined the street from Old Market circle to Ravindra Bhavan at Margao to witness the Shigmo float parade even though it started way beyond the announced time of 3.30 pm and the floats which are better known as Chitrarath started only at around 9 pm.
In all, there were 27 participants in the fancy dress competition with 19 in junior category and eight in senior category. The participants were judged by Kiran Kulkarni, Ranjan Naik and Sharmila Prabhu.
While there were nine Romatamell groups participating in various folk dances like goff, ghode, modni and kunbi, which were judged by Mahendra Phaldessai, Anant Agni, and Nityanand Naik.
The 21 chitraraths were judged by Sunil Naik, Pramod Chatri and Anand Masoor. People participated in the celebration with full gusto and were seen cheering the participants.
On Saturday, Goa was put under temporary partial lockdown by closing schools, colleges, pubs, discos and casinos till March 31. However, the government left the decision to hold Shigmo parades to the local committees.
However, MGP leader Ramakrishna (Sudin) Dhavalikar criticised the chief minister for not having the guts to cancel the government sponsored Shigmo parade from Sunday.
