I am not happy with my victory, I think my own party workers have voted against me,” said BJP MLA Atanasio Monserrate, popularly known as Babush, who has emerged as a winner in Goa’s capital Panaji. The three-time MLA from a different constituency defeated BJP veteran leader and former chief minister Manohar Parrikar’s son Utpal, who went against the party and contested as an independent candidate, by a margin of only 716 votes. 

Sources have claimed that Babush is among the several BJP candidates who were in talks with the Congress and could have defected if the people’s mandate was different.