Congress hopes to clinch power in U’Khand, Goa

Taking on the incumbent BJP, the Congress is all set to fight it out in a very close contest in the pollbound states of Uttarakhand and Goa. Both the states vote in a single phase on Monday. The high-octane campaigns in the two states have poised the match evenly.

Regional parties are also trying to make inroads in these states that have traditionally been ruled by the two parties. The Trinamul Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party had an aggressive campaign strategy in Goa. The TMC in Goa managed to pull several candidates from other parties to itself while the AAP is on the poll plank of a corruption-free government. In Uttarakhand, the AAP has been campaigning for the past few months and has attracted leaders from other parties too. The 70-member Assembly

in Uttarakhand has seen a liberal interchange of leaders between the Congress and the BJP. BJP ministers Harak Singh Rawat and his family and Yashpal Arya and his son are now in the Congress.