There is no connect with Mamata Banerjee, she might be a huge face in West Bengal but here she is just another, what they call political tourist,” Devika Sequeira, a journalist based in Goa, tells Media India Group.Īlong with TMC, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is once again contending against the major players BJP and Congress for the 40 seats, and in a drastic attempt to sway traditional preferences, Kejriwal has been making loud campaign promises, like in July when he announced that every family would get 300 units of free electricity and in September, promising 80 pc reservation of jobs in the private sector for locals, dole for jobless youth and a monthly remuneration of INR 5,000 for families affected by closure of the iron ore mines and those hit by pandemic closures in the tourism sector.

You come and you think you can bring the same kind of things from a larger state and put them to use here, it doesn’t work. “To airdrop into Goa and think they could just take over the Congress space is ridiculous, especially since it is not even the TMC people who have had any proper discussions, it is being done by a consultancy group which understands very little of Goa, misled by Prashant Kishor into thinking they could just influence the Goan voter.

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