Panaji, Oct 6 : All sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs cannot be guaranteed a ticket for the 2022 state Assembly polls, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Wednesday.
“All parties do this.Each and everyone (sitting MLAs) do not get a ticket.That depends on the performance and (an MLA’s) connect with the people.
I am not saying that everyone will get a ticket.That is not possible at all.Everyone knows this,” Sawant told reporters in Panaji.
He said only the party’s central leadership will take a call on who is to be allotted a ticket to contest the upcoming elections.
“Surveys are carried out by the local state team, the central team and the final ticket is allotted by the Centre.BJP is a central party with a Parliamentary Board.It decides on giving a ticket.When the time comes to allot a ticket, the parliamentary board decides the ticket,” Sawant said.
Sawant’s announcement comes soon after the BJP’s central leaders, including the party’s National General Secretary C.T.Ravi and National President J.P.Nadda held a series of meetings with party MLAs in the course of the BJP’s preparations for the 2022 state Assembly polls.
At present, the BJP has 27 MLAs in the 40-member assembly, of which 13 have been legislators who quit the Congress and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party to join the saffron party
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