PANAJI
Use a Godrej lock to keep your candidates safe and secure, Goa BJP president Sadanand Shet Tanavade told Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party leader Sudin Dhavalikar, amid accusations made by the latter, that the ruling party was trying to poach some of its candidates.
Tanavade also said that MGP was levelling the accusations because of the frustration which was seeping into its leaders on account of the lack of popular traction which its proposed alliance with the TMC had evoked.
"BJP does not poach anybody's candidates. If people want to safeguard their candidates, they should keep them safe behind a big Godrej lock," Tanavade said at a press conference held at the BJP state headquarters in Panaji.
"We are not interested in poaching (MGP) candidates. He should protect his own candidates," Tanavade also said, in wake of accusations made by the Dhavalikar brothers, that the BJP was harassing MGP candidates and forcing them to switch over to BJP.
Tanavade also said that MGP was flustered by the realisation that Goan voters would not support its alliance with the MGP.
"They have divided to have an alliance with the TMC. It is something Goans are not supportive of. There is a question mark over whether Goans will support this alliance and therefore he is venting his frustration," Tanavade said.
In jest, Tanavade also said that despite not heeding BJP's request to the MGP to form an alliance for the 2022 polls, the Dhavalikar brothers should have sought his advice vis a vis identifying another alliance partner.
"He could have at least asked us whom they should ally with. I would have suggested some options. He did not even ask us (laughs)," Tanavade said.
