PANJIM: Aam Aadmi Party leader Amit Palekar questioned Congress on Thursday, if they could provide any guarantees that their candidate would not defect.
“There is no single party in the State that will ensure that its candidate will not join the BJP. In 2019, 10 Congress MLAs joined the BJP. Now, as the Congress releases its first list of candidates, Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco joins the TMC. It is expected that Sudheer Kandolkar, a Mapusa candidate of Congress who helped the BJP win the Mapusa Municipal Council, will join the BJP. Such poaching in the State indicates that the BJP has learned that majority wins cannot be achieved,” he added.
Goa, despite being a tiny State has been a popular for political defections. In order to resolve the problem Aam Aadmi Party candidates will sign a legal affidavit; promising not to switch parties, said AAP leader Amit Palekar on Thursday.
While addressing the media persons, he stated that Goans have been witnessing a worrying new trend of overtly corporatised corruption in politics.
He said, “Therefore, to resolve this problem, AAP candidates will sign an affidavit and distribute it among Goan voters, assuring them they won’t jump to other party. If they do, voters can take legal action.”
Meanwhile, AAP convenor Rahul Mhambre along with other AAP leaders on Thursday submitted a memorandum to North Goa Superintendent of Police Shobit Saxena demanding arrest of the mastermind behind Souza Lobo restaurant attack case.
The Aam Aadmi Party unveiled its new office in Mayem Constituency at the hands of first-time voters of the constituency and in the presence of AAP leader Rajesh Calangutkar
