A tourist for any country is a privileged lot. People who regularly conduct established business on a tourist visa are abusing that privilege. But, locals here do not interfere with what they do unlike in other parts of the country.

As the state legislative assembly election is round the corner, the foreigners who are legally and illegally in the business at the Goa’s coast have literally affected despite the fact that the code of conduct has come into force. They are now forced to close shop by 11 pm, but for many of them it is a curiosity to see who is being elected in the coming elections. They are hugely bothered about their local representatives especially in Mandrem, Siolim and Calangute constituency in North Goa.

Dozens of foreigners are operating their respective trades mostly associated to tourism industry on Goa’s coast including shops, general trading, catering, hotels, restaurants, touring, clubbing, cafes, music etc.  A lot of foreigner girls are yoga instructors and into the travel guiding.

Travel through the North Goa coastal belt has discovered that the foreigners who are operating businesses and here for long time are known to all political parties and their own local leaders.

Though they are not directly in touch with the MLA but they are indirectly in touch through local panchas or leaders.

All ruling coastal MLAs are very popular among even the tourists, they know them very well and which party they are belonging more than that of their home town politics.

“We have seen people going to MLA for any petty work and that the way we got to know about them. In our country this hardly happens, politicians here are easily available” one of the British national said.

Another Israeli national who is into clothing business said that they even attend some political meetings in the villages just to see what is happening.

“We feel election is like festival in Goa, all the people have seen out of the houses at tinto, at junctions etc. Everywhere we seen only political talks”’ an Israeli national said.

A lot of tourists go back to Europe, US, Japan, Australia, Russia to make cash and return a few months later from May onwards. Some of them go to the hill stations like Himachal or some other place in the North

India where there's less rain but all of them arrives in this state post monsoons.

For them Goa is a second home and well aware about not only political activities but socio and cultural too.