Panaji: The BJP managed to wrest Goa from the Congress with a decisive mandate. The party won a majority 21 of the 40 assembly seats as four in every five voters rejected the Congress. The party was decimated to the single digit of nine seats.
Manohar Parrikar, the face of the BJP's campaign in Goa and the man set to become the Chief Minister believes it was a referendum on corruption and the politics of family Raj.
"They (Congress) have looted Goa for five years and salt was rubbed on the injury by giving tickets to family members," Parrikar said.
Of the 40 seats in the Goa assembly, the Congress-NCP combine gave 12 tickets to members of just five families.
Seven of the family candidates were trounced in the polls, including all four members of the powerful Alemao family.
Digambar Kamat, the only Cong Chief Minister to complete a five year term and holding the important mines portfolio for 11 years, was besieged with charges of aiding and abetting illegal mining.
The MB Shah commission report on illegal mining, still awaited, is believed to have squarely indicted his administration.
"It is for the party leadership to decide what has gone wrong and who is responsible, I don't want to blame anybody, if they feel that I am responsible then I will accept it, it is for party leadership to introspect," Kamat said.
The next step for the BJP will be ensuring the stability of their government, making sure it lasts the whole 5 year term but for the moment the massive 82 per cent Goan voters have decisively thrown out the Congress-NCP government and the BJP will rule the beach state of India.
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