Whom to vote The usual propaganda has undergone sea change. No posters, Only meetings which most of the time lash out at opponents painting them red, instead of focusing on programmes,which are realistic. Catch attention by announcing doles, employment without accounting for revenue and schemes .The multiplicity of innumerable parties and splinter groups further confuse the issues., Last parliamentary elections were won by massive publicity, print and electronic media that devastated. Congress UPA,. BJP is now focusing on AAP that is a credible challenge. Parties in Goa like AAP, MGP combine, Congress are fielding sizable contestants and each one is proclaiming win.. The other smaller parties, independents hope to tilt the balance and seek a pound of flesh in the eventuality of hung assembly.. Congress is not projecting an united front with divisiveness, old hats and dissidents left out in the cold.. BJP came to power as alternative to Congress misrule, Now voters are disappointed with BJP U turns and non performance, As far as corruption is concerned the tracks are well covered with depleted opposition to highlight the misdeeds. If Congress is not the alternative what is next?
Lack of financial resources is a factor limiting propaganda. The local press is having a hay day, with each publication visibly siding one or the other and this is not lost on the voters. This akin is providing paid news . The BJP has in anticipation provided free sim cards to youth much in advance to beat the election code to keep in touch with them .The brochures dished out by contestants are not fancied by the voters, who do not read them and is of garbage value.. The real issues of unemployment and monumental price rise, pollution, regional plan , are not taken seriously but touching only peripheral , emotive non issues like casinos, mining, MOI etc. The BJP will further divide votes and contestants are thus directly or indirectly willing to aid the BJP game plan, which brought them to power .Will the dissidents in the BJP with S.S, MGP, GSR rule the roost and deny BJP much awaited majority? The Congress has not consolidated its position by refraining or faring badly in municipal and local elections and out of power Congress with 9 members have not credited as visible opposition, In fact Vijay Sardessai has been accredited as the main opposition The choice before the voters is simple. Change the parties, the candidates who are entrenched in the system. This is the best hope to usher in all desirable benefits .BJP at the centre and states is not the answer expected and hoped for, States like Jammu n Kaskhmir, Karnatka, Tamilnadu, Bihar, Bengal have a strong local flavor which can act as a deterrent to monolithic on party structure of supremacy, The country is reeling under the burden of BJP philosophy only mouthing slogans at , State,National and International fora Nelson Lopes Chinchinim
