BJP to deploy about 5000 party workers from Karnataka and Maha in Goa for Assembly Poll campaign

PANAJI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leaving no stone upturned to ensure that it secures more than a simple majority in the upcoming Goa Assembly polls scheduled to be held in the coastal state in February next year.

A top source from the Organizing Team told Indyatv.in that about 5000 well-trained party workers including leaders will be deployed in Goa, working shoulder-to-shoulder with the local karyakartas for a month or two prior to the elections.

Each constituency in Goa will have a dedicated election war room with a master war room in each of the two districts – North Goa and South Goa.

Another State war room will be set up in Panaji (or Mapusa) which will liaison with the national campaign teams. The poll campaign and party workers will be co-ordinated from various locations including the BJP head office in Delhi.

The Goa BJP election campaign will not just be a show or tiatr choreographed by the local MLA candidate, but with orchestra conductors remotely monitoring the progress from Delhi, Pune and Mumbai.

Besides handling back-end data processing, poster and creative designing for social media campaigns, making individual banners targeted at the problems and issues of the constituencies, the teams will also work on the ground, meeting people in every village and waddo in Goa.

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Trained workers from Maharashtra and Karnataka will assist and augment the strength of the local teams of the MLA candidate and blocks or Mandals.

These outstation workers are being further trained in their respective states and are also being taught basic communication skills in Marathi and Konkani so they are able to converse with Goan households when they visit them for prachar or campaigning.

Knowing the allergy that Goans have to the Hindi language and consider non-Konkani speaking people as Bhailes or outsiders, often giving them the cold shoulder, outstation party workers are being trained in spoken or simple Konkani, as well as the Goan way of life, a source told this reporter.

About 100 workers divided into teams will be embedded with local workers in each constituency. These karyakartas will work 12 to 14 hours a day, visiting each and every home in the particular constituency they are assigned to and will report to a group leader, who in turn will report to the constituency in-charge.

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Local leaders have their biases and ‘mental blocks’ when it comes to certain residents of the constituency they live in. This ‘mental block’ problem will be taken care of by outstation workers who do not know the residents personally, but will converse with them in Konkani to strike an emotional chord with the families of Goans.

This is to ensure that proper campaigning or prachar takes place in each and every constituency and the MLA candidate and his supporters do not miss out or ignore any families.

The idea is to meet everyone and convince everyone to vote for the Lotus, irrespective of their present political affiliation. Normally, residents owing allegiance to a different party, have an apathy for local party workers affiliated to the sitting MLA and consider them as trouble-makers or goons or chamchas of the MLA.

This is where the outstation workers will come in and try to explain the ‘good work’ undertaken by the BJP government, both in Goa and at the Center.