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- ↑ Margao (Goa) Assembly Constituency Elections Results, Candidate Lists, Localities, Current MLA
- ↑ NRI Commission of Goa
- ↑ "About Us". PAN H2O SOLAR. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
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