Mr. Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, is going to attend the Goa Liberation Day programme. The event is being celebrated on the 19th of December to mark 60 years of the state’s freedom from Portuguese rule in the state capital Panaji.
The coastal state was liberated from 451 years of colonial Portuguese rule on the 19th of December, 1961.
With an eye on next year assembly elections the BJP Government has planned a grand celebration aGoa@60′.
The sources in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who wished to be anonymous said, “Details of his itinerary will be finalised in the coming days. Modi will participate and address the main event.”
According to a senior BJP leader, the celebrations are not only about celebrating events, but about celebrating developments too, especially in the state’s rural areas. The sources said, “The Prime Minister attending the celebrations will be one of his pre-election visits and few more may follow before the announcement of election dates.”
The BJP leader said, “Our government uses the celebration as an opportunity to strike a connection with the people ahead of the next year’s Assembly election.”
Meanwhile, it is to be noted, the Goa Assembly polls would be held in February- March 2022.
Besides Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur would also conduct its Assembly election.
The BJP has been in power in the coastal state since 2012. In Goa, the BJP will be contesting the first election after the death of former defence minister Manohar Parrikar, one of the tallest leaders of the party in the state.
As of now, apart from the BJP and the Indian National Congress (INC,) Arvind Kejriwal’s the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Mamata Banerjee’s the Trinamool Congress (TMC) are also in the fray.
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