Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal  said that AAP is the only competitor to the BJP in Goa and Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress is nowhere in the race and doesn’t even have a 1 per cent vote share as of now in the coastal state. 

You might give a lot of importance to TMC but I don’t think it stands anywhere in the race, Kejriwal said while addressing reporters in Panaji.

“I think TMC doesn’t have even a 1% vote share as of now. It came to Goa only 3 months back, democracy doesn’t work like this. You need to work hard and you need to work among people,” he said.

On Tuesday, the AAP national convenor promised a corruption-free government if voted to power.

“The Goans has already tried Congress for 27 years, MGP and BJP for 15 years. This time Goa should give a chance to AAP and Goans would see a noticeable difference,” he said adding that Goa is a first-class state with absolutely third-class politicians.

Goa deserves much better politicians and AAP is the only hope, the Delhi CM said.

We don’t understand politics, we only know to work and AAP came here to bring a change and to clean up dirty politics of which Goans are fed up, he added.

Last week, TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Goa on a two-day political trip and addressed several public meetings.

The TMC, which is trying to make inroads in Goa, has portrayed itself as an alternative to the BJP and Congress.

After its landslide victory in West Bengal polls, Mamata is eyeing a national role for herself with TMC in expansion mode.

Over the last few months, several prominent politicians from the Goa Congress including former chief minister Luizinho Faleiro jumped ships to join the TMC.

On Monday, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee’s working president Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco became the latest MLA to quit the party and join TMC.