Digital Goa, July 11- Sadanand Shet Tanavade today filed his nomination for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Goa as Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. The BJP Goa unit president filed his nomination papers before Returning Officer Namrata Ulman at the Goa Assembly complex in the presence of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and other MLAs. Exuding confidence that he will win the seat, Tanavade said he will request even the opposition MLAs to vote for him. The BJP and its allies have 33 MLAs in the 40-member Goa Assembly. The opposition Congress has three MLAs, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has two members, and the Goa Forward Party and the Revolutionary Goans Party have one legislator each. The election will be held on July 24.
