Goa Polls 2022 | 'Congress Has Fear In Their Mind': CM Pramod Sawant On Resort Politics

Most of the exit polls have predicted a hung Assembly in Goa. Pramod Sawant met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant (Getty Images)

New Delhi: As reports emerged that Congress is planning to shift its Goa election candidates to a resort, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday said the party "always has fear in their mind".

"I think the Congress party always has fear in their mind. They fear that the candidates whom they chose this time will run away. That is why they have started resort politics," ANI quoted Pramod Sawant as saying.

Sawant, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Tuesday, exuded confidence about getting a clear majority in the 40-member assembly on March 10. 

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Most of the exit polls have predicted a hung Assembly in Goa.

"Exit polls may show anything. Confident that BJP is forming government in Goa once again with majority," he said.

Sawant also said the party had kept open the option of seeking the support of independents and the MGP, PTI reported. The MGP is getting wooed by the Congress as well if the party falls short of a few numbers to form the next government.

"We will take help of people who are required for coalition or to form government. We'll bring like-minded parties on board if they want," he said when asked on post-poll alliances.

To avoid a repeat of the 2017 fiasco in Goa, where it failed to form a government despite emerging as the single largest party, Congress is leaving no stone unturned to keep its flock intact.

"All the Congress candidates will be staying in a resort in North Goa on Wednesday from where they will be heading towards the counting stations," PTI quoted a senior party leader as saying.

All India Congress Committee's election observer for Goa P Chidambaram and state in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao have been camping in the coastal state since last Sunday.