Panaji: While a public notice issued on the newspapers to form new political party named “Goa Congress Party” has sparked a worry that the national party is heading towards a vertical split, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Girish Chodankar said that BJP has resorted to its old playbook of dividing the votes.
The public notice on the newspapers had surfaced on various newspapers on Thursday announcing the formation of new political party named Goa Congress Party. The application for the same has been moved to the Election Commission of India.
Reacting to the development, Chodankar said that the new political party is no surprise for him.
“As the Congress gains momentum across Goa and people rally behind our vision, the BJP has once again resorted to its old playbook, sponsoring another political outfit to split the secular vote because it lacks the confidence to face the people on its own record,” he said.
Chodankar said that he had learnt about this “alleged Rs 100-crore operation over a week ago and exposed it publicly during my media interaction four days before today’s announcement.”
“What has unfolded now only reinforces those concerns,” he said.
The Congress leader said that there is no split in the Congress. “The party is united, stronger than ever, and steadily expanding its support across every region of Goa. Attempts to spread rumours and create confusion will not succeed,” he said.
Chodankar said that whenever the BJP senses public anger and anti-incumbency, it falls back on the same formula: float or support new parties to divide votes instead of answering for its failures. “After years of rising prices, unemployment, law and order concerns, corruption allegations, land controversies, and broken promises, the BJP knows it cannot seek votes on governance alone,” he added.
He said that Goa has changed. “Goans are politically aware and will not fall for another engineered experiment designed to benefit the BJP. Every vote diverted through such tactics only helps the ruling party escape accountability,” he added.
The people of Goa want change, honest governance, and a government that works for Goans, not political projects funded to manipulate the electoral outcome. This time, the BJP’s divide-and-rule strategy will fail because the people have seen through the game.
