PANJIM, March 25 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finally chose a woman for the South Goa Parliamentary seat and announced the candidature of Pallavi Dempo for the seat.

Pallavi's name figured in the BJP's fifth list of 111 candidates for the general Lok Sabha elections.

A Goan entrepreneur and educationist, Dempo holds a graduate degree in chemistry and a post-graduate degree in business management (MBA) from MIT, Pune. She is the Executive Director of Dempo Group of Companies and currently oversees the media and real estate arm of the company.

Pallavi Dempo is the president of the Indo-German Educational and Cultural Society, which contributes to the cultural enrichment between Germany and Goa.

She is the trustee of Moda Goa Foun...