Tarcar to take on Monserrate in Santa Cruz
MGP candidate Dinar Tarcar whose iron ore export companies were among those listed for illegal mining in Goa has declared assets and investments worth over Rs 212 crore together with his wife in the affidavit filed before the returning officer in Panjim on Friday.
This is a huge scale–up from the Rs 3.1 crore he had shown in 2007 when he contested and lost the election as a Congress nominee against BJP leader Manohar Parrikar in Panjim.
Tarcar will this time take on Congress Minister Babush Monserrate in Santa Cruz in what is expected to be a show of money–power. The BJP which used the illegal mining issue to slam the Congress in Goa chose to field Tarcar as a Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party candidate to avoid the obvious embarrassment. The BJP and MGP have sewn up a pre–poll alliance.
An Income Tax order on a former Goa government employee has named Tarcar and another builder as the conduits for payoffs to Monserrate for land conversions in Goa in 2006. Tarcar and Monserrate are believed to have fallen out since.
Among the other visible politicians who have become richer are Congress ministers Joaquim Alemao and his brother Churchill. Joaquim who is also big time into mining has tripled his worth from Rs 9.13 cr in 2007 to Rs 28 cr declared is his affidavit on Friday. Churchill Alemao has shown his net worth as Rs 11.68 cr.
