Dhavalikar can’t win in Shiroda: Minister

PANAJI

:

PWD minister Deepak Pauskar

has said that the people of Shiroda have never elected a person from outside their constituency as MLA, and hence,

MGP president Pandurang Dhavalikar

has no chance of winning the byelection there later this month.


“Every legislator elected from Shiroda, irrespective of his party ticket, has always been a local,” said Pauskar, who quit MGP a week ago and joined BJP. He stated that apart from repairing and building temples in Shiroda, no development work was done by Dhavalikar.

He said that Dhavalikar is an “outsider” and considering the history of the constituency, he doesn’t stand a chance. “People are not fools to elect him,” Pauskar said. He added that “so-called development by Dhavalikar” would end a day after polling day.

Dhavalikar, who contested and lost from Priol in the 2017 election, began nurturing the Shiroda constituency over six months ago. When Congress MLA

Subhash Shirodkar

resigned and joined BJP in October last year, Dhavalikar intensified his work.