Panaji Election Result 2022: Utpal Parrikar loses to BJP's Atanasio Babush Monserrate

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Panaji election result 2022: Utpal Parrikar, an independent candidate and son of former CM Manohar Parrikar, has election to BJP's sitting MLA Babush Monserrat Panajit.

Atanasio secured 6,787 votes while Utpal finished second, pocketing 6,071 votes. Congress' Elvis Gomes finished third by securing 3,175 votes.

Utpal had sought ticket from the BJP to contest polls from Panaji, the seat represented by his father in the Legislative Assembly since 1994. The BJP, however, preferred Atanasio Babush Monserrate, a Congress alum, over Utpal from Panaji. Monserrate is a sitting MLA and a former Congress leader.

Although the saffron party had offered two other options to Utpal, he turned down the offer and decided to contest polls as an independent.

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Manohar Parrikar won every election from Panaji held since 1994. He had resigned in February 2015 after Prime Minister Narendra Modi roped in as the Defence Minister in the Union Cabinet. He was rushed to Goa in 2017 to head a BJP-led alliance government. He then successfully contested bypolls from Panaji.

Panaji went to polls on February 14.