Parrikar predicts BJP's victory as Goa votes
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar predicted victory for the BJP candidates by huge margins in the two Lok Sabha constituencies in Goa, which witnessed 19 per cent voting in the first two hours yesterday.
Talking to The Hindu after casting his vote at a Panaji polling booth yesterday, Parrikar said that the BJP candidates would win because of cumulative effect of Narendra Modi and vote for his own government's performance over the last two years.
When asked if the BJP prospects in Catholic-dominated South Goa would depend on the rebel factor in the Congress, Parrikar said these things can only widen the margin of victory.
He said that the Congress created a fear psychosis among minorities in the name of Modi in some pockets of South Goa constituency, but "some of these are not traditionally our (BJP) areas," he argued.
"In these areas we had to change strategy because they do not recognise Modi, they vote for Parrikar," he said.
Parrikar charged that the people are against the Congress because the UPA government neglected Goa during its 10-year rule at the Centre.
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