Denied ticket, Manohar Parrikar’s son Utpal resigns from BJP
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He will contest as an independent candidate from Panaji, ‘fighting for values’
Utpal Parrikar, son of late Goa Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart Manohar Parrikar, resigned from the BJP on Friday and announced that he would contest as an independent candidate from the Panaji Assembly constituency after from the seat ahead of the upcoming .
Addressing reporters in Panaji, Mr. Utpal Parrikar said that he had decided to contest as he wanted to give people an option, and that the time had come to stand up for the values that were steadily eroding in the present BJP.
“All these years my father [Manohar Parrikar] had developed an immense bond with the people of Panaji. I, too, have developed this bond with them. But for some reason, I have not been able to get the candidature for Panaji. Instead, it has been given to someone who has opportunistically entered the BJP in the last two years,” Mr. Utpal Parrikar said, hitting out at incumbent Panaji MLA and ex-Congressman Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate, who has been given the ticket in his stead.
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