After the Bharatiya Janata Party lost the 2007 elections, it did two things. It brought back Laximikant Parsekar as president and also from Gujarat the former organizing secretary, Satish Dhond.
The reason – he is a good organizer and can keep and bring party workers together which would benefit the party in the long run.
Leaders point out that the BJP was able to control those who could potentially rebel after ticket distribution and that the party won the elections hands down is because of his abilities.
He is the Amit Shah of Goa; what the Shah is to Modi – Dhond is to Parrikar.
Most of the “dirty work”, of keeping people in line, organizing activities at block level, pressurizing here, cajoling
others, the carrot and stick approach is adopted by Dhond. It is a typical Amit Shah/Satish Dhond speciality.
However, perhaps acknowledging that Dhond is abrasive, he was kept out of the public gaze in the 2012 elections, unlike Shah who led from the front and has been a BJP MLA and minister.
Dhond has been accused of catering to a particular caste and he has not had a very good relationship with the other party heavyweight MP Shripad Naik. In fact, when Naik was the BJP president Dhond was shunted out of Goa.
That probably proved to be a blessing in disguise as he got close to Modi and Shah in the time that he was out of the state.
