The Goan Network
PANAJI
Conceding to the sentiment expressed by voters at Zilla Panchayat election, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee sought to assure the its supporters that it will rise up again to win trust of people before 2022 Assembly election.
"We failed to convince people that we are changing. They feel that if they vote to Congress, then their vote will go to BJP as in past our MLAs defected. We failed to weed out this perception from people's mind. Voters expressed anger by dissent and did not come out to vote for us. We respect their dissent and vow to change," GPCC President Girish Chodankar stated.
He declared that the party has accepted the verdict. "Congress has seen similar setbacks before and emerged victorious several times. We have lot to learn from the results,” he said.
While assuring people that Congress party will undertake a deep analysis of these results, Chodankar said that steps to strengthen the party will be adopted soon.
According to the GPCC president, Congress will undertake vigorous membership drives and strengthen its grassroots level and booth level committees.
“BJP won because the defected MLAs helped them to garner votes. Besides this BJP used government machinery to campaign for the election and stopped us from even meeting people,” Chodankar argued.
In his concluding remarks, the GPCC president stated, "On behalf of the party, I would like to conclude with a famous and befitting quote from Neil Gaiman. Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost."
