Goa Election Result 2022: Muslim votes win for BJP’s Ulhas Tumkar in Navelim. Goa News – Times of India

routes: BJPglee Tuemkar I found a black horse fledgling The constituency defeated its nearest rival TMC’s Valanka Alemao by 430. defeated by vote, While it is clear that the imminent massive division of opposition votes with nine candidates in the fray helped Tuenkar win, the role of lesser-known candidate Rehan Mujawar, who contested on an NCP ticket, proved to be the final decider.
Mujawar finished fourth with 2,622 votes, trailing Congress candidate Evertano Furtado, who got 3,806 votes. Your statue is trailing Coutinho and RG’s Bento de Silva Mujawar.
Mujawar was a strong contender for the Congress ticket from Navelim and had lobbied fiercely for it. However, as soon as the party denied him a ticket, Mujawar turned to the NCP and contested as its candidate.
Sources said that Mujawar’s candidature has led to the integration of most Muslim Vote in his favour, causing loss to TMC and Congress candidates. Political observers said that if Mujawar had not been in the fray, the 2,600-odd votes cast by him would have been roughly split between Furtado and Alemao, which would have changed the outcome significantly.
About a quarter of Navelim’s total electorate is from the Muslim community, mostly concentrated in Rumdamol, Davorlim and Ravanaphond areas. A former panchayat member from Rundamol and now a Zilla Parishad member from Davorlim, Tuenkar has a good rapport with the Muslim community of these areas. Tuenkar, a BJP foot soldier and a grassroots worker, with his low profile personality, enjoys good relations with his voters in these areas.
Navelim’s victory has helped the BJP gain a foothold in Salsette, where it contested all eight constituencies. He had to face defeat in all other seats.
Former Congress functionary Pratima Coutinho, who quit the Congress and joined the AAP in March 2021 after its defeat in the ZP elections, fought on a Congress ticket, has largely left herself and her party as an alternative. was successful in presenting it. However, she failed to make a mark, finishing a miserable fifth.