New Delhi: Ahead of the assembly polls in Goa in June, the ruling Congress faces several difficult issues, including a revolt by controversial MP Churchill Alemao.
Things are heating up for the party as the observers believe it is just a matter of time before Alemao leaves the Congress to float his own regional outfit to "save Goa".
Deputy Chief Minister Wilfred DeSouza, head of the local NCP, created a storm in the Congress in the small state by saying his party would settle for no less than 10 of the total of 40 seats in the assembly.
Congress leaders are, however, hopeful the NCP's leadership at the national level will see reason and give suitable directions to the local unit. The Congress is ready to offer at the most seven seats, sources said.
The opposition BJP is in a buoyant mood after victories in assembly polls in Uttarakhand and Punjab as well as the civic elections in Delhi. BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy, in-charge of party affairs in the state, feels Goa cannot remain an "island" and would be in tune with the "national mood".
Congress leaders say they are not projecting anyone as a chief ministerial candidate given the fact that besides incumbent Pratapsinh Rane, an old warhorse, the party has three other former chief ministers in its ranks.
They are state Congress president Ravi Naik, senior Minister Louisinho Faleiro and assembly Speaker Francisco Sardinha.
With inputs from PTI
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