Goa Assembly Elections: CM Laxmikant Parsekar loses, BJP edges ahead

In fact, the proportion of Catholics among the BJP candidates during the election in Goa (the party did not field candidates in every constituency) nearly matched the 25 percent proportion of Catholics in the state’s population. Officials said vote count was on in 23 of the 40 constituencies.

“Despite Congress being ahead of BJP in numerical numbers, our party will form the next ministry and working is going on to show majority”, Biren said. Sharmila, who broke her 16-year-old fast last year to enter electoral politics, secured only 90 votes. The Counting process will be carried out by 38 Returning Officers at 11 Centres in 33 counting halls.

The Union Minister ruled out a situation that would affect the stability of a coalition government considering that BJP will need more than one ally to form the government.

“The margin of almost 5,000 votes shows that the people were unhappy with the CM’s work”, Sopte said.

The MLAs, who met to explore the possibility of forming government in the state, passed a resolution urging party chief Amit Shah to nominate Parrikar as leader of the legislature party.

In Punjab, the BJP had recorded it best ever performance in 2007 when its candidates won 19 of the 23 seats that they had contested. And Francisco C.J. A. De Pinto E Souza of BJP leads from Mapusa.

This is D’Souza’s sixth consecutive win in assembly elections.

Parsekar was defeated by his former close aide, Gopal Sopte, who joined the Congress, Source said Parsekar was not only a poor administrator who had no control over bureaucrats but had also raised the RSS’s hackles: Sangh’s Subash Velingkar was upset with Parrikar for picking him. They filed fake cases against me. Both the parties bagged four and one respectively in the last elections too. Despite having the maximum vote share in the state, the party failed in gaining maximum seats due to the division of votes in the polls.

” On behest of the BJP, Independent candidate Asab Uddin (Jiribam, Manipur) has been detained forcefully by CISF and flown to an unknown location”, AICC leader C.P. Joshi who is in Manipur said on social media.

“We have to respect the people’s will”.

The legislature party has also asked the central leaders to relieve Parrikar of his duties as a Central minister.

There is also a point of view that the party’s national leadership has not been much bothered about Punjab and had already given up on the poll prospects of the alliance.