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Nabin’s "win faith of women" strategy must deliver real tickets in Goa




When BJP National President Nitin Nabin unveiled his new national team, the political messaging was unambiguous: a massive push for gender and demographic inclusion, featuring 12 prominent women leaders in key structural roles. signaled that the high command wanted women at the decision-making table.

However, as Nabin wrapped up his high-stakes, two-day organizational tour of Goa to review preparations for the 2027 Assembly elections, the narrative encountered a familiar bottleneck. Addressing the state unit, the leadership’s explicit "mantra" was to win the faith of the women electorate and leverage grassroots women workers as the ultimate game-changers. 

During his address at the State Executive Committee meeting in Chimbel, Nabin emphasized that the "beauty of the party lies in its ability to elevate grassroots workers to the highest positions." Nationally, his restructuring strategy proved this, allocating nearly one-third of the central organizational roles to women.

Yet, translating this organizational benchmark into legislative candidacies in Goa is a different hurdle altogether. If the high command expects the Goa unit to actively identify and support grassroots women leaders, that encouragement cannot stop at booth-level mobilization. It must culminate in their names appearing on the ballot.

The upcoming 2027 Goa Assembly election serves as a crucial litmus test for the party's true ideological commitment. In 2023, the Modi government marked the passage of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam -- the constitutional amendment guaranteeing a 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies. 

While the formal implementation of this law awaits the completion of the census and delimitation exercises, waiting until the absolute legal deadline to empower women sends a message of hesitation. 

If Nabin’s national template is to be believed, the party has an opportunity to lead by example.By proactively allocating a higher percentage of tickets to women in the upcoming Goa polls ahead of the mandate, the leadership can show that its belief in women's leadership is a core principle rather than a legal obligation.

As Nabin sets an aggressive target of a 50% vote share at every polling booth across Goa's 1,731 booths, achieving this milestone is mathematically impossible without the enthusiastic backing of the state's women majority. 

Winning the faith of the women electorate requires reciprocity. If the party expects women to secure their electoral victory, it must trust those same women to govern. It requires dismantling the old boys' club of Goa's politics and guaranteeing that women who lead at the booth level are given the platform to lead in the Assembly. 

 The 2027 elections are the perfect testing ground. By voluntarily allocating a significantly higher percentage of tickets to women leaders ahead of the mandatory quota, Nabin stands a chance to establish the BJP as a truly progressive vanguard of women-led development. The blueprint has been drawn in New Delhi under his presidency; now, it is time for the Goa BJP unit to execute it on the polling sheets.

Author; Rajeshree Nagarsekar 




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