Goa slum spurns bribe, calls cops

MONEY OVER MANIFESTO: Goa's Taleigao constituency is known for the unbridled use of money and muscle power.

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Keywords: Bribe, Assembly Elections

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But soon after it rained money along with an election manifesto, people from a slum cluster in Taleigao constituency of poll-bound Goa called in the police, refusing to get bribed.

Taleigao is one of the richest constituencies in Goa known for the unbridled use of money and muscle power.

“Rs 2,000,Rs 1,500 and Rs 1,o00 were left at different houses in the colony,” says Sub Inspector B Pawar.

Residents say a few men canvassing for Independent candidate Somnath Juwarkar distributed the cash along with his poll manifesto on Wednesday morning.

Says Taleigao resident Sachin, “Money was lying here in the morning. We informed the police about it.”

Police have registered a complaint and seized the campaign material and currency notes.

Juwarkar is pitted against the controversial former minister Babush Monserrate, also accused of corruption. It is perhaps fitting that the unambiguous message against corruption should have gone out from this poor pocket of this constituency.