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Sitting MLA from Panaji gets ticket, Utpal Parrikar to consider given option: Devendra Fadnavis
New Delhi, Jan 20 (ANI): With just few weeks left before commencement of Goa Assembly Elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) addressed a Press Conference in Delhi on January 20. On being asked why Utpal Parrikar, son of late former CM Manohar Parrikar, was not given ticket to contest election from Panaji, BJP Leader Devendra Fadnavis informed that the sitting MLA from Panaji has been given the ticket, and Utpal Parrikar is being given more options. "Sitting MLA has been given ticket from Panaji. Utpal Parrikar, former Goa CM Manohar Parrikar's son, and his family are our family. We gave two more options to him but he rejected first one, and the second option is being discussed with him," said BJP leader Fadnavis.