LS polls: Valanka Alemao, Pratima Coutinho in the race for South Goa Congress ticket?

BENAULIM: Move away Girish Chodankar, Captain Viriato and Amit Patkar. There is a new contender in town. Actually speaking not a new contender at all, but one with a lot of political baggage. A little birdie from Varca has confirmed that Valanka Alemao is desperately lobbying for the South Goa constituency Lok Sabha ticket.

In addition to Valanka, it seems Pratima Coutinho has also thrown her hat into the ring and seems to be a contender for the ticket.

In fact, when we reported yesterday that a ‘secret’ survey was being undertaken by the Congress high command to figure out which candidate among all the aspirants had the maximum personal votes in South Goa, our source mentioned that they were looking at a female candidate as well, because her name seemed to be in the list or at least it was so claimed.

As reported earlier, even Churchill Alemao was planning to contest as an independent but seems to have ditched the idea. He has expressed his support for the BJP candidate Pallavi Srinivas Dempo for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, which will be held on May 7th in Goa.

Valanka Alemao was not available for comment. In case she responds to this story, we will update the post accordingly.