In Goa, electioneering is gradually picking up with candidates of various political parties as well as independents mainly concentrating on door to door campaign to persuade the voters for ensuing assembly polls.The state is going for polls on March 3. Two hundred and fifteen candidates, including nine women, are in the fray.Senior leaders of major political parties are scheduled to address rallies and public meetings in the state. the Trinamool Congress Party, which is contesting the Goa elections for the first time, has come out with their manifesto while the Congress and BJP are likely to announce their manifesto within two days.The election authorities are introducing poll monitoring system for the first time in the electoral history of the state under which the voters will be photographed.
News On AIR | February 18, 2012 1:34 PM
Poll fever picks up Goa