Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram on Saturday mentioned he has been given the duty of restructuring and reviving the get together in Goa, the place Assembly polls are scheduled subsequent 12 months. The former Union minister, who’s again in Goa inside every week of his first go to to the coastal state after taking on as election observer, on Saturday held plenty of conferences with the native get together office-bearers and leaders, together with the heads of election committees. When requested, he refused to speak concerning the doable alliance with the like-minded events for the following 12 months’s Assembly polls, saying that his mandate was solely to restructure and revive the state unit of the get together forward of the elections scheduled in February 2022.

“My mandate is only on restructuring and reviving the party, reconstituting the block committees and enrolling members,” he advised reporters on the Congress House right here. Chidambaram arrived within the state on Friday on a three-day go to. During his go to final week, he had mentioned that the Congress was getting “battle-ready” to combat all 40 seats of the Goa Assembly, and in addition claimed that the political environment within the state was “extremely favourable” for the get together.

Meanwhile, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Girish Chodankar mentioned, “The party is planning to chalk out a strategy for the next year’s elections. We are reworking all the booths across the state.” “Several leaders are joining the Congress in Goa as they look at the party as hope against the BJP. People have decided to defeat the BJP in the next elections in the state and the pulse is in favour of the Congress,” he added. The Congress had gained the very best 17 seats within the 40-member House within the 2017 Goa Assembly elections, proscribing the primary opponent BJP to 13. But the saffron get together had moved swiftly to affix arms with regional events and got here to energy beneath the management of senior chief Manohar Parrikar, now deceased. Over the years, Congress’s energy within the Legislative Assembly has dwindled to 5 after lots of its MLAs switched sides and joined the ruling BJP. 

(PTI)