Minister Vishwajit Rane wants father to retire from politics

In Goa, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and minister Vishwajit Rane has advived his father Pratap Singh Rane to quit politics.A veteran Congress leader Rane is 83 years old and keen to contest the coming assembly polls. He publicly urged his father to "retire gracefully from politics" and not contest from the Poriem Assembly seat, from where he has been undefeated for nearly 50 years. If Pratapsingh doesn’t take his advice. "My father will also have to think. At 83, why does he have to continue in politics? One should gracefully retire after becoming a CM for more than nine terms. A person who is my idol and someone I have so much respect for... that person should gracefully retire, not retire in the battlefield. It will be a very messy thing," Vishwajit Rane said.

His comments came as his father announced that he would be contesting the 2022 state Assembly polls from his traditional bastion of Poriem. "My workers have taken this decision (to contest), let us see what people say. Party leadership will eventually decide whether I should contest or not," Rane senior. said. Viswajit Rane, however, claimed that his father had no connect with the voters of Poriem anymore because of a generational shift in the people in the area, located in north Goa. He also said that state, and central Congress leaders and some "selfish persons" were pressuring his father to contest, adding that the Congress has been decimated in the Poriem constituency.