Lagatar24 Desk
Panaji, Jan 19: The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday named Amit Palekar as its chief ministerial candidate for upcoming Goa Assembly polls.
The announcement was made by AAP national convenor national Arvind Kejriwal during a press briefing in Panaji.
“The party will be contesting all the 40 Assembly seats in Goa,” said Kejriwal.
Amit Palekar will be AAP's chief ministerial candidate for the Goa Assembly polls pic.twitter.com/irvTdpLTeg
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Notably, Palekar is a lawyer and social worker, hails from the OBC Bhandari community. In the 2017, AAP failed to win a single seat elections despite running an ambitious campaign, pitching 39 candidates for a 40-seat strong assembly.
“I’m guaranteeing you a corruption-free Goa. We will get back Goa’s lost glory, a Goa everyone dreamt of. I will keep every word that I have said and that is my guaranty,” said Amit Palekar.
Interestingly, P Chidambaram, a senior Congress politician, stated on Monday that the Goa assembly elections are a struggle between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the state’s ruling party.
