Via PTI
PANAJI: Congress veteran P Chidambaram held a gathering with the Goa Meeting ballot applicants of his birthday party and the ones of best friend GFP on Wednesday evening, the place it was once made up our minds that the alliance will title its chief right away after the election effects are out and stake declare for presidency formation, resources mentioned.
The verdict is supposed to steer clear of a repeat of the 2017 fiasco when the Congress had didn’t shape a central authority in Goa regardless of scoring the utmost collection of seats.
Polling for the 40-member Space was once hung on February 14 and the counting of votes will probably be taken up on Thursday.
Maximum go out polls have predicted a hung Space within the tiny coastal state, main the political events to formulate their methods protecting in thoughts other post-result situations.
The Congress had contested the election on 37 seats, whilst best friend Goa Ahead Birthday party (GFP) had fielded 3 applicants.
The Congress, which had saved its applicants in a luxurious lodge at Bambolim close to Panaji in North Goa since Tuesday night time, shifted them to some other lodge in Margao the town on Wednesday night time.
This lodge is owned by means of some of the birthday party applicants.
Assets mentioned that Chidambaram, who’s Congress’s Goa election in-charge, held a gathering with the applicants of the Congress and the GFP, which was once additionally attended by means of Karnataka Congress president D Okay Shivkumar, who’s these days tenting in Goa.
All the way through the assembly, it was once made up our minds to elect the chief of the gang right away after the effects are out and stake declare to shape the federal government with state Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai.
“The appointment with the governor can be sought right away after the effects are declared. We do not wish to devote the errors that came about after the 2017 election effects,” a senior birthday party office-bearer mentioned.
Chatting with newshounds, Shivkumar mentioned that the entire applicants are in combination and there is not any concern of any cut up.
“BJP is understood for its dependancy of poaching. This is the reason we now have requested all our applicants to stick in a not unusual lodge,” he mentioned.
In 2017, regardless of successful 17 seats, the Congress may now not come to energy because the BJP, which had bagged 13 seats, allied with some independents and regional events to shape the federal government below the management of its stalwart Manohar Parrikar.
The BJP eyes a 3rd consecutive time period in workplace.
