All sitting MLAs can't get a ticket: Goa CM on Assembly polls

Panaji, Oct 6 (IANS) 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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