Summary:
The BJP can ill-afford to let Tawadkar snub Sawaikar any further if the party is serious about retaining the South Goa seat. All these elements of human nature played out in Canacona constituency and bore its stamp on the results on the 2017 assembly elections. Tawadkar, by his show of strength, has succeeded to project himself as a formidable force, thereby accentuating BJP’s fault lines. The tribal festival, Lokotsav, a Ramesh Tawadkar-initiative, turned out to be a rallying point for sympathisers of the former minister across the political spectrum. ‘Ramesh Tawadkar unlikely to give in to BJP’s persuasions’MARGAO: Caste and politics ..