Goa results today; Cong hopeful
Counting of votes for the elections to the 40-member Goa assembly will be taken up on Tuesday to decide the next government in the state, which has experienced political instability for over a decade.
By PTI |
PANAJI: Counting of votes for the elections to the 40-member Goa assembly will be taken up on Tuesday to decide the next government in the state, which has experienced political instability for over a decade. It will be held at three different stations spread across two districts. Two counting stations are in Panaji, while one is in Margao (south Goa). “In all the 40 constituencies results will be out by 11 am,” Goa chief electoral officer Ramesh Negi said.
The first results are expected to be out before 8.30 am. In all, 202 candidates, including 49 independents, are in the fray for the election, that was held on June 2.
Ahead of the vote count, leaders of ruling Congress and opposition BJP claimed they will form the next government in the state.
“We will get a simple majority and wrest power from the Congress,” senior BJP leader Manohar Parrikar said. Senior Congress leader and MP Shantaram Naik, said his party would get a “comfortable majority” and retain power. “Initially, we projected that Congress would garner around 30 seats, but that figure has come down,” he said in the backdrop of smaller parties managing to split votes,” Naik said.
Asked to specify the number of seats he expected BJP to win, Parrikar said: “We will win at least 21 seats” in the 40-member assembly. Parrikar had earlier stated that his party would “prefer to sit in opposition if it fails to get a clear majority”.
Senior Congress leader and MP Shantaram Naik, said his party would get a “comfortable majority” and retain power.
“Initially, we projected that Congress would garner around 30 seats, but that figure has come down in the backdrop of smaller parties managing to split votes,” Naik said.
Churchill Alemao, leader of a prominent small party, said: “No party will be in a position to form the next government in Goa without my support.”
The first results are expected to be out before 8.30 am. In all, 202 candidates, including 49 independents, are in the fray for the election, that was held on June 2.
Ahead of the vote count, leaders of ruling Congress and opposition BJP claimed they will form the next government in the state.
“We will get a simple majority and wrest power from the Congress,” senior BJP leader Manohar Parrikar said. Senior Congress leader and MP Shantaram Naik, said his party would get a “comfortable majority” and retain power. “Initially, we projected that Congress would garner around 30 seats, but that figure has come down,” he said in the backdrop of smaller parties managing to split votes,” Naik said.
Asked to specify the number of seats he expected BJP to win, Parrikar said: “We will win at least 21 seats” in the 40-member assembly. Parrikar had earlier stated that his party would “prefer to sit in opposition if it fails to get a clear majority”.
Senior Congress leader and MP Shantaram Naik, said his party would get a “comfortable majority” and retain power.
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“Initially, we projected that Congress would garner around 30 seats, but that figure has come down in the backdrop of smaller parties managing to split votes,” Naik said.
Churchill Alemao, leader of a prominent small party, said: “No party will be in a position to form the next government in Goa without my support.”
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