{"id":113371,"date":"2026-06-29T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=113371"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:08:38","slug":"cm-bjp-working-on-salcete-based-secular-party-to-split-votes-alleges-girish-chodankar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=113371","title":{"rendered":"CM, BJP Working on Salcete-Based Secular Party to Split Votes, Alleges Girish Chodankar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Goa Khabar:<\/strong>\u00a0Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President\u00a0<strong>Girish Chodankar<\/strong>\u00a0has alleged that Chief Minister\u00a0<strong>Dr. Pramod Sawant<\/strong>\u00a0and the BJP are working on the formation of a new\u00a0<strong>Salcete-based secular political party<\/strong>\u00a0ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing the media, Chodankar claimed that the BJP has earmarked a&nbsp;<strong>\u20b9100 crore budget<\/strong>&nbsp;for the alleged plan, with the objective of dividing the secular votes traditionally received by the Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25.06.2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25.06.2026.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/25.06.2026-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further alleged that the process of forming the new political outfit has already begun and that several leaders are actively involved in the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chodankar said the alleged move is aimed at weakening the Congress by splitting the secular vote bank, and urged the people of Goa to remain vigilant against what he described as a politically motivated strategy ahead of the elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar:\u00a0Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President\u00a0Girish Chodankar\u00a0has alleged that Chief Minister\u00a0Dr. Pramod Sawant\u00a0and the BJP are working on the formation of a new\u00a0Salcete-based secular political party\u00a0ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. Addressing the media, Chodankar claimed that the BJP has earmarked a&nbsp;\u20b9100 crore budget&nbsp;for the alleged plan, with the objective of dividing the secular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":113372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[180,42,3794,38],"class_list":["post-113371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-bjp","tag-congress","tag-featured","tag-goa"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113373,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113371\/revisions\/113373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}