Panaji: BJP is confident of getting an absolute majority in both the ZPs, the party’s state president Sadanand Shet Tanavade said on Friday. “Overall, our candidates in both the districts are getting good responses,” he said.
He said that ZP and assembly elections are different and “we consider all elections differently”.
BJP is contesting 25 seats in North Goa and 16 seats in South, Tanavade told reporters.
Asked about the impact of agitations across the state, Tanavade said that those involved are not BJP workers or supporters, they have never voted for BJP. “Our supporters have confidence in us — that if at all any issue will impact the state, then BJP will resolve it,” the state BJP president said.
He denied allegations that BJP continued to campaign after campaigning ended in March. “Nobody has stopped people-to-people contact, campaigning means you cannot hold public meetings. We have not held any public meeting. No one stopped the opposition from visiting houses. Basically, they didn’t want to go and meet people,” he said.
BJP candidates were in touch with the people even during lockdown, he said. “When a party realises that they are going to lose the elections then they start making allegations,” the state BJP president said.
Tanavade said that most of our MLAs who have come from Congress have fielded candidates as independents. “We will win those seats,” he said.
In some seats, Congress candidates are now supporting MGP or independent candidates, he said.
“BJP expects the opposition to come together for elections and accordingly BJP plans the strategy, so even if that happens, there won’t be any impact on BJP,” Tanavade said.