Goa regional parties turn coy as Congress, BJP woo them

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According to CVoter, BJP may become the single largest party, but will be short of majority. Francis D’Souza, who retained the Mapusa seat, is a frontrunner.

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar of BJP loses his seat to Dayanand Sopte in Mandrem constituency. The BJP and the Congress are projected to finish neck and neck with 32 seats each in the 70-member assembly. Only time and diplomatic thinking amongst the parties can tell. If Parrikar is to become the Chief Minister, he will have to resign as the Defence Minister of the country. D’Souza was overseas at the time. They were clearly not convinced with the repeated assurances by senior BJP leaders that the state’s territorial integrity would not be tinkered with. Her party raised funds through crowdsourcing while she campaigned on a bicycle.

Prominent losers in Manipur elections include Revenue and Forest Minister I Hemochandra, Education Minister Dr Kh Ratankumar, Rural Development Minister M Okendro and former Congress Minister and National Peoples Party candidate Phungzathang Tonsing, who all lost to their rival BJP candidates in Singjamei, Mayang Imphal, Heirok and Churachandpur. But if you happen to be away from a TV channel and want to track the political saga on the go, there are multiple ways to do track 2017 assembly election results live online. The Governors should not respond to “pressure” from the Union Government but invite Congress first to form the future governments, ” he said. It might hope for the support of some of the three Independents.

Both the Congress and the BJP are also trying to get T Robindro Singh, the lone All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MLA, into their fold, to boost their tally. Alemao was the chief minister when he was part of the Congress, and the NCP had contested the 2012 elections in alliance with the Congress.

However, the Congress is confident that it will be able to draw support from smaller players.

“We are an alliance of NDA and therefore we will support the North East Democratic Alliance, which comprises non-Congress parties even in Manipur”, NPF spokesperson Achumbemo Kikon said.