PANAJI
The Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Luizinho Faleiro on Monday said that the party was confident of winning 23 seats “at a conservative estimate” and thanked the people of Goa for reposing faith in the Congress party.
“It is a victory of the Congressmen who worked at different levels. The popular aspiration was for new faces and it was an herculean task but we have been able to give at least 60% new faces. Looking at the trend, people will support the Congress party,” Luizinho Faleiro said.
Faleiro said the party, at a conservative estimate was going to win 23 seats and the number could be even higher on account of the wave in favour of the Congress.
Speaking of the manifesto, Faleiro said that Congress will honour every word of it and “will not tolerate any corruption.
“This is the new Congress party and will not tolerate any corruption and if there is any corruption, the party will initiate action against any individual,” Faleiro said.
When asked whether the party, if it comes to power, will also probe the past corruption of the earlier government, Luizinho said the focus will be on the future.
“I’m talking about the future. I’m sure that if there was corruption it will be in the courts of law and the law takes its own course. We are going to start with a clean slate. We can’t start with the past. These promises (in the manifesto) are very important. The Congress party will not allow any kind of corruption in governance and will take action, whatever it may cost us,” Faleiro said.
