Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President Girish Chodankar today said that BJP will be reduced to single digit in the Goa Assembly Elections and his party will form the next state government.
“BJP will be reduced to single digit in the Goa Assembly Elections and his party will form the next state government. I thank the people people of Goa for the clear mandate,” said Chodankar
He further said that the people of Goa were firm on Congress and did not allow the votes to get split.
“Congresswas completely revamped; BJP will go below 10 seats. We have incorporated all the suggestions we collected from the people of Goa and did the neccarry changes. People of Goa know that Congress is a people’s government,” he said
Speaking on voting of ballots, Chodankar alleged that BJP is trying to manipulate postal ballot voting of those government servants who were posted on election duty.
According to sources, Congress chaired a all candidate meeting this morning Chodankar to put in a ‘secret’ measure in place to ensure that its winning candidates do not defect after results of the state assembly polls are announced on March 10.
Apart from making all its 37 candidates take oath in front of Hindu, Christian and Muslim deities and making them sign affidavits that they will not defect from the party throughout their five-year term if they are elected, the Congress party, has taken another measure, which cannot be disclosed.
Seventeen Congress MLAs were elected to the state Assembly following the 2017polls out of which 13 quit the party to join the BJP until 2019.
However the party was left with just two MLAs by 2022, with its other MLAs joining the BJP, Trinamool Congress or the Aam Aadmi Party between 2019-2022.