the goan I network
VASCO
A political fest awaits the people as the port town is all geared up to hold two poll campaign meetings, one of the BJP and the other of Congress, at different locations on Sunday at 7 pm.
While the BJP will conduct a public meeting opposite Kalavati Mandir at Sada, the Congress has fixed a public meeting near Shafi Masjid Baina.
While there is no announcement of any star campaigner for the Congress public meeting, noted film star Isha Koppikar, who recently joined BJP as head of the women’s transport wing, will campaign for the BJP at the public meeting in Sada.
BJP will also have a public meeting in Zuarinagar at 5.30 pm on Sunday with Isha Koppikar.
Incidentally, the same timing and date of the public meetings has put many voters in a quandary, as they would ideally have preferred to attend both meetings to ascertain the manifesto and assurances of both political parties.
While both political parties are confident of pulling a big crowd, voters are likely to attend only one of two meetings in the port town.
Source in the BJP camp said Koppikar would pull in more crowd at the BJP meeting.
“Koppikar will address a public meeting in St Cruz constituency in Chimbel at 4 pm and then address a public meeting in Zuarinagar. She will finally come to Mormugao at 7 pm,” said a source.
“We are taking meetings constituency-wise and we are more interested to have voters of each constituency and not of the entire taluka. Since we have a separate meeting for Cortalim constituency, we may not have those voters attending the meeting in Mormugao as well.”
“As far as Congress is concerned, their meeting is for the entire taluka consisting of four constituencies. However, we will ensure that a maximum crowd attends the public meeting in Sada,” the BJP source added.
Accepting the challenge, a source in the Congress camp said people were more interested in a change, rather than having a look at a filmstar.
“People want to know the real solution to issues and no movie star can stop people desperately looking for a change. We are here to give people a new ray of hope and not take life as it is in movies.”
“We have already been getting tremendous response and as such we are dead sure that we will have the maximum crowd for our public meeting. They may have to rely on film stars to promote themselves this time because people are angry and fed up with the BJP,” said a source in the Congress camp.
