Parrikar yesterday quit as the defence minister of India, a post he had been holding since November 2014 after the first reshuffle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet.
In Goa, 1.2 per cent of the people voted for NOTA (None of the Above), followed by 1 per cent in Uttarakhand, data available with the Election Commission of India showed.
The party was not doing well in Punjab, where it was seen as an alternative to the Akalis and the Congress, and Goa, where it hoped to put up a spirited fight.
The Congress is leading on seven seats, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on five, MAG on two, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on one and others on two.
The Election Commission has issued guidelines on security arrangements for counting of votes, and has also set up facilities for disseminating trends and results of elections of five assemblies.
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