AAP Declares Former Top Cop Elvis Gomes as Goa CM Candidate

The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday declared former Goa police officer Elvis Gomes as the chief ministerial candidate for the state.

Goa will go to polls next year.

A well known and respected Goan Civil Service officer, Gomes resigned from service after taking voluntary retirement in 2016 at the age of 53 years.

He was Inspector General (Prisons) and was holding the additional charge of Urban Development when he resigned from service.

Gomes has held almost all important official posts in Goa. Previously, he served as director of Municipal Administration and Tourism, chairperson of Goa Housing Board, commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Panjim, and Captain of Ports.

Born and brought up in Cuncolim, Salcete Tauka, South Goa, Gomes had taken Voluntary Retirement from service in July at the peak of his career to join the AAP.

During his tenure as Director Tourism, he was credited with promoting responsible and clean tourism and is remembered for stressing on jobs for locals in tourism industry.

It is his work as IG Prisons for which he earned an all round praise for the reforms in jails carried out by him.

He was the Founder Member Secretary of Goa Football Development Council, which was set-up to promote grass root level with a scientific approach.

Goa is the second state after Delhi, where the AAP has declared its Chief Ministerial choice before elections for the voters of the state.