It will be AAP-BJP fight in Goa: Kejriwal

August 22, 2016 01:38 am | Updated 01:38 am IST - PANAJI:

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that as in the 2015 Delhi polls, the Congress would go blank in the Goa Assembly polls early next year.

Participating in a ‘Goa Dialogues’ held for tribals in the Quepem taluk of south Goa during his three-day visit, Mr. Kejriwal said that in the 2017 Assembly elections in Goa it would be a “straight fight” between the AAP and the BJP. “The Congress stands nowhere in these polls. You take it in writing from me, the Congress will not get a single seat in Goa, just like in Delhi. Don’t waste your vote by giving it to the Congress,” he said.

He alleged that the corruption in BJP-led coalition government in Goa was worse than the levels of corruption during the erstwhile Congress-led regime. He charged that Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and his predecessor Manohar Parrikar had cheated the people of Goa.

Stating that drug trade was a huge problem in Goa, Mr. Kejriwal alleged that such a business could not flourish without political patronage.

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