Panaji: Last week when the head of West Bengal Minister Mamata Banerjee warned BJP from ‘Khela Hobe’ in Tripura, UP, Assam and Goa, almost unwittingly in a small tourist country.
And before anyone can realize, the Trinamool Congress MPS Derek O’Brien and the Banerjee presence went down in the state.
Their entry in Goa created a Buzz sought TMC and the party had the first catch in the form of the former Chief Minister and Veterans of Congress Luizinho Faleiro, who will join them in Kolkata on Wednesday.
But a lot before TMC showed his seriousness, it was I-PAC, the political management agency that had been involved in the party for five years, who deducted the country with his 180-man team and did the basis, analyzed it and analyzed it and finally sent a report to Mamata earlier this month .
The report was clear: time was ripe for TMC to plunge into Goan’s politics and become the main competitor to BJP.
“Why is Goa? First, there are very strong anti-BJP sentiments in the state.
Second, the availability of large and third opposition spaces, Goa is a small situation,” O’Brien told Tii in an informal chat a few days ago.
Goa is one of the small states targeted to get the percentage of the votes needed to get the status of the National Party.
The party has been looking for dissatisfied politicians, including from BJP, and intellectuals to seduce them into their folds and expand their base to be ready for the election of the country.
Faleiro induction can be seen from this point and that his long task in the northeast, when he is a AICC responsible, will help TMC to strengthen his base in the region.
The high driving on his success against BJP in Bengal, TMC hopes to position himself as a party that has the capacity to become the main competitor of the Safron Party.
TMC posture to Goan Voter is, unlike Congress, it can provide a serious challenge for BJP and stop the MLA mass exodus and politicians to the fold of Safron.
Congress, although it is the only biggest party with 17 members after the 2017 election, found himself with only four members at home 40 members as everyone, except Faleiro, who had quit the party had joined BJP.
TMC was looking utilizing anxiety among Congress workers and supporters who felt humiliated and betrayed by MLA they defected and dismantled by parties for failing to stop them join BJP.
On the other hand, the party also assumed that it could exploit hatred in BJP by old guards, who felt absent after the party was sworn in 13 MLA from Congress during this tenure.
TMC wants to portray that it is a party with a difference that has strong leadership and controls his herds.
O’Brien indicates that the party will have a mechanism to ensure that their MLA does not jump ship.
What also tilts TMC entries to Goa is the size of the country to manage selection.
On average, each assembly constituency has around 25,000 voters and TMC feels that they can manage this with the resources available with them.
The party of the person in saying that the deputy pricing of Banerjee to Goa was not aimless.
It’s about football.
With Goa and Bengal vibrant about the game and many Goan footballers who are Banerjee’s contemporaries, TMC fances the chance there too.
But this is not the first time TMC tested the fate of his election in Goa.
In 2012, under the leadership of the former Minister of Main Wilfred De Souza, TMC opposed 20 seats and got less than 2% of the total sound share.
Churchill Alemoo also did not succeed in attracting Lok Sabha’s polls on TMC tickets in 2014 for South Goa chairs.
Ask O’Brien, and he has a different take.
“Our goal is not (only) participating in the next assembly selection in Goa but to win,” he said.