panaji as the poll propaganda machinery fell silent on thursday evening voters across goa huddled into their homes to contemplate and decide on who to vote for on saturday political parties and candidates on the other hand were busy tying loose ends congress and bjp have tied up with the ncp and mgp respectively in an election that could go either way goa in the last two months has seen some strategic and official tieups unofficial political fixing repackaging of promises parties that could not be fulfilled in earlier regimesall of which culminated in parties and candidates using all available resources exposing rivals errors and projecting their own party as harbingers of good governance with a day to go for polling its time for party thinktanks to pull out the final tricks from the war room sources say there is a possibility of transfer of votes to independents if party candidates are likely to lose analysts say bjp leaders seem to have forged ahead from the early days in shrewdly taming the storms of dissension kicked off after distribution of tickets given his political acumen and astuteness to forge marriages of convenience bjp leader and potential chief minister manohar parrikar has again proved he is ahead of others in political warfare parrikar has managed to tame rebels and prevent any split of votes and the alliance with mgp has provided bjp a big boost providing it with an opportunity to bounce back to power a move that led bjp national president nitin gadkari to say it is a 100 natural alliance for the interest and development of goa and 101 we will form the next government in goa with this alliance the congress though it has managed to contain rebellion in many cases discarded aspirants are not working for the official candidates from p1 the bjp boardroom thinking went beyond the alliance and containing rebellion in the first round to saffron moles holding important positions networking with various organizationsincluding village groups youth and women groups for nearly a year on issues like rp 2021 and their efforts to bring the groups closer to the party seemed to have worked on the other hand analysts say congress was unable to grab the opportunity of being the ruling party in 20012002 bjp had worked like a wellorganized team churning out a series of schemes offering jobs to the youth and distributing cheques to the needy utilizing government machinery and more importantly grooming its own cadre during its rule managing the media well and marketing its achievements for the 2002 polls against this backdrop the congress thinktank seems to have failed in capitalizing on its achievements it did offer several schemes and provided stability to complete the full term since statehood during the last five years the government did take some decisions it scrapped sezs improved the health infrastructure introduced 108 emergency ambulances service provided subsidized vegetables and commodities and went in for mechanization of agriculture while roads were tarred the government fell