short of constructing a new bridge over river zuari bridge in building flyovers in traffic management and in constructing garbage treatment plants leaders also worked at cross purposes and silence marked criticism from the opposition while its own people especially dayanand narvekar spewed venom on the government lack of a strong leadership and party organizational set up poor governance indecision factionalism going soft on the opposition and lack of managerial skills are among the factors that let congress down say analysts probably the scams including the hotly debated illegal mining casinos privatization of government hospital and the opposition pulling it up time and again may have also overwritten its achievements after announcement of polls congress showed no signs of going in for a badlyneeded makeover of its image not having done much to widen the party base over the years congress banked on individuals and allowed them to grow stronger at the cost of the party paying the price for it this time individuals became so strong that six families have managed to corner tickets for their family members pocketing more than onefourth of the tickets the simmering anger against the congress is palpable for promoting family raj politics in the state congress is caught in the bind of its own creation reinventing itself bjp has nominated six catholic candidates and has supported three catholic independents but in some constituencies the role of bjp leaders came as a surprise to many in st andre bjp seemed to have changed its mind late initially the party was considering former minister dr carmo pegado but later promoted vishnu surya wagh probably for two reasons he being a good orator and to push wagh as the next bhandari leader in the party social activist soter dsouza said there have been some christians who have taken the risk and voted for bjp in the past but increased discrimination against minorities and violation of human rights in other bjp ruled states in the neighbourhood and across the country can no more be ignored or rubbished it would be foolish of a christian to fall for the argument being propagated that the bjp in goa is different from the bjp in other states he says a bjp spokesman however countered it saying the party doesnt discriminate on religious lines for us there is nothing called minorities all are equal to us he said refuting the charge nonetheless some minority members are wary of the bjp due to controversial decisions taken during its earlier regime cancellation of holidays on the feast of st francis xavier dec 3 good friday and the controversial vcd on goas freedom struggle showing scenes of the inquisition are reminders of the hidden agenda of the hindutva brigade alleged pwd minister churchill alemao on the cancellation of religious holidays parrikar in an interview with toi has blamed the officer who issued the circular on the holiday restrictions congress on the other hand has not done much for the minorities albertina almeida coconvenor of