Congress leadership is on the job to pacify leaders who lost the race for the prized ticket. After Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Goa, senior leaders have reportedly got down to the serious business of pacifying aggrieved aspirants. Sources in the know say senior leaders even offered posts and positions to the prominent ones amongst the lot after the party returns back to power in the February 14 polls. Some of the aggrieved leaders, however, appeared not convinced over the offers.
For Vijai, induction now doesn’t augur well
Goa Forward chief Vijai Sardesai seemed to have made a tactical halt on the question of inducting BJP workers and supporters into the party-fold. Vijai went to the extent of saying that last minute induction does not augur well for those willing to embrace the party, as they run the risk of attracting the “paid entry” tag. The move assumes significance and comes against the backdrop of reports that rival Damu has fixed a schedule of induction Goa Forward workers into the party.
TMC is playing outsider card in Cuncolim
Will the Cuncolim pride and revolutionary spirit keep local doctor, Jorson Fernandes in good stead in the coming polls? Contesting on the Trinamool Congress banner, Jorson has not lost a single opportunity to harp on the Cuncolim pride to take on Congress candidate Yuri Alemao. That Jorson has repeatedly questioned the Congress for nominating Yuri by denying ticket for a local candidate, indicates the TMC is playing the outsider and son of the soil card to checkmate Yuri’s free run in Cuncolim.
Savio using Velim Church case to silence opponents
The decade-old Velim Church attack case has come in handy for Congress candidate Savio D’Silva to silence his opponents questioning his antecedents and also put his rivals and former MLAs, NCP’s Filipe Nery Rodrigues and TMC’s Benjamin D’Silva in the dock. With the main prosecution witness PI Kapil Nayak naming Savio, the two priests and others in his deposition for assaulting him in the Church in the incident, Savio has gone around Velim telling how the police officer has foisted the case on him and the priests. And, he also questions the two former MLAs over their failure to withdraw the case against the priests.
