Goa bypoll may not throw up surprises
Goa bypoll may not throw up surprises Camil Parkhe Saturday, 26 August 2017 goo.gl/b6GBPW The poll verdict clearly indicated that the people in Goa had totally ruled out the Aam Aadmi Party, which had initially appeared as a major contender for power and also the Goa Suraksha Manch, the political splinter group of the local Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Both these parties failed to win even a single seat in the Goa assembly. Politics indeed makes strange bedfellows. The electorates in Goa experienced this recently, soon after the results of the Assembly elections in this smallest state in the county were declared. The voters had then voted the BJP out of power, reducing the ruling party’s tally from 21 to 13, and elected the Congress with 17, as the single largest party in the 40-member House. The poll verdict clearly indicated that the people in Goa had totally ruled out the ...