QUEPEM (TIP): Two councilors of the Quepem Municipal Council along with six other Congressmen joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on March 26 evening ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Congress members joined the BJP in the presence of chief minister Manohar Parrikar and party president Vinay Tendulkar at a special function at Quepem garden.
QMC councillors Amol Kanekar and Suchita Shirvoikar who were with the Congress and supporting Chandrakant ‘Babu’ Kavlekar for 15 years disassociated from the Congress saying that the party had failed to carry out major development at Quepem. Others who joined BJP are Remedio Rebello, Sandeep Phal Dessai and Prisco Sequiera.
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