Summary:
However, on Friday, Monserrate said he would quit GFP and contest the Panaji bypoll. “I will have a vision document for the Panaji constituency,” said Monserrate.Monserrate’s decision to quit GFP and contest the byelection as an independent will give the BJP a headache, political commentators said. However, he eventually paved the way for Parrikar’s smooth sailing in Panaji by joining GFP. Parrikar had won the Panaji seat in the February 2017 assembly byelection by defeating Congress’s Girish Chodankar by a margin of 4,803 votes. “GFP is in an alliance with BJP..