SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2024
Didi has finally blown the poll bugle in Goa. ‘Goa te Khela hobe’ (n the games will begin in Goa) is what she said at her own by-election rally in Bhawanipur two days ago. She then sent two of her MPs former India football captain Prasun Bannerjee and the popular Derek O’ Brien to Goa
Speaking to Herald on Saturday , morning o’ Brien, also the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Spokesperson said his party would be contesting the next year's Goa Assembly polls. The party will announce its Chief Ministerial candidate soon, he added. We are here as a serious contender against the ruling BJP. The Mamata Banerjee-led party has no "high-command culture" and will pick credible local leaders in the coastal state.
He also specified that the “TMC will have no pre poll alliance with any party”
Since arriving in Goa on Friday, Derek O'Brien has been meeting representatives of civil society as well as political leaders.
Derek , added that they have done their ground work and TMC is the party which work with action team and agency. The agency is in Goa since mid-July and has extensive research and also got the reral picture of Goa. At present TMC has five-year contract with the I-PAC, a cutting edge political resreach, analysis and poll execution agency led by the renowned Prashant Kishore, whose 180 people are currently in Goa.
TMC is been talking to civil society members and politicians. Derek himself will be camping in Goa till run-up to Goa polls except attending Parliament session. Also, 3-4 TMC MPs will join the Goa election campaign. “Moreover,the Electorate of Goa are angry on both the national parties ie BJP and Congress, hence TMC will have a credible leader as party’s face for the elections and would field fresh faces”, O’ Brien said
“TMC is not here to divide votes, hence we are confident that people of Goa will vote for the strongest party like how people of Bengal voted” He added.
