PANAJI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday told the BJP legislature wing and senior functionaries that winning the 2022 assembly polls for the party would be easier than the previous elections as AAP, TMC and Congress would fight for the same vote share, while BJP’s would remain intact.
Shah told the MLAs and core committee members that this is the first time since 2007 that BJP has a better opportunity to win the assembly election and told them that he would be returning to Goa next month to chalk out a detailed strategy for the polls, scheduled early next year.
After some MLAs from the minority community raised apprehensions about winning the assembly elections, Shah told them to meet their religious heads and take them into confidence. He also told them to put up a united face and help each other so that BJP gets majority on its own.
He told the MLAs to visit the booths and understand why the karyakartas are unhappy, if they are, and assuage their feelings.
Shah’s response came after some MLAs said it would not be easy for them to win the elections, while others raised the issue that those who had joined from Congress were not getting any support from the local workers of the party.
Some of them also said there needs to be a holistic plan with shared responsibilities if they wanted to win the elections.
“If we fight the elections as one unit, then nobody can defeat BJP. But we need a proper strategy for it,” they said. Shah also held meetings with the CM and Goa BJP election in-charge Devendra Fadnavis. He met the core committee members separately.
