These days in our locality lot of campaigning is carried out by AAP. When I questioned them who are their target, they replied BJP. Congress also says the same, so too the other regional parties. But according to my observation, none of these parties, regional as well as national, is capable to unseat the BJP from the power if they contest the coming election independently without aligning with each other, all will lose miserably, some even their deposit.
When all the parties are having a common goal to dethrone BJP then they must be ready to do some adjustment to fight this election otherwise BJP is surely coming back to power. If this happens then all the non-BJP parties will be held responsible because they will be considered as “partners in a crime”. In this direction of forging an alliance, any of the non-BJP parties must take the initiative and finalise the accord.
Individually on its own not a single party is capable to dethrone BJP though AAP feels they are, to win the next election on their own; however, if they are firm on this belief then they are in illusion. Besides, to gain the goodwill of the Goan masses, AAP is not having in its fold Dr. George Habbash in Palestine or Dr. Datta Samant both of whom did free services to the people as money was not their God. For this reason people considered them as their gods and followed them blindly.
In Delhi it was Anna Hazare’s shadow that made AAP what it is now but in Goa AAP will have to foist one on the heads of Goans. If AAP wants to serve Goa then it must tie up with other parties to fulfill its ambition of unseating BJP. Otherwise AAP will simply split the votes thereby giving BJP an edge over all others.
As it is AAP is concentrating only on the stronghold of anti-BJP votes in a big way and also the anti-BJP voters citadel. This gives an impression that AAP is all out to fortify BJP votes. But by doing this AAP will not gain anything even if they bring hundreds of Kejrival to Goa. Kejrival is not Gandhiji nor Jay Prakash Narayan. He is just a sectarian leader of one sector only, i.e. Delhi.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.