Mickky Pacheco is not the first politician to bow out of office over
allegations of involvement with women.
Little more than two decades ago, then speaker of Goa's assembly Dayanand
Narvekar was embroiled in a major controversy. He faced an allegation of having
molested a woman working in his secretariat office at Panaji.
Though the nature of the charge against Narvekar, who is presently the Aldona
MLA, was different, he was in the news for trying to defend himself by claiming
that it was a false charge made by his political rivals. Ultimately after an
agitation, Narvekar had to put in his papers. The molestation issue had its
effect on the electoral politics. In the assembly elections held some months
later in 1989, Narvekar lost the Aldona seat to an MGP candidate Ratnakar
Chopdekar by just 333 votes.
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