Goa fiasco: Should have tried hard but BJP moved faster, says Digvijaya

It was a long night for the Congress party managers who tried hard last Saturday to secure a majority in the Goa assembly but lost the game by sunrise to some deft moves by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strategists.

In an interview to this newspaper, Digvijaya Singh, in-charge of Goa affairs at the All India Congress Committee, gave a blow-by-blow account of the behind-the-scenes maneuvring, defending himself against the charges being made by local party leaders.

According to Singh, soon after the assembly results were out last Saturday, he'd called a meeting of the new Congress lawmakers but had to postpone the