Panaji: Rejected by Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Shiv Sena have decided to establish an alliance for the election of the legislative assembly.
While announcing that the NCP and the Shiv Sena will follow 10-12 constituencies each in Goa, both sides left the door open to match the polls with Congress, along the lines of Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra.
Both sides say they are trying to convince Congress to form an alliance, but the talks did not bear fruit.
Maha Vikas Aghadi – Coalition between the Shiv Sena, the NCP and the Congress – now heads the government in Maharashtra.
“NCP and Shiv Sena have decided to fight elections in Goa,” said the General Secretary of the National NCP Pressur Patel.
“We will not oppose all the 40 seats, but our candidates will win a seat where we menawanya.” Patel said that over the next four days, representatives from both sides will sit down together and decide the allocation of seats to the polls in February.
“Whatever seats we fight, we will win and the government will not be formed without our support,” said Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut.
Patel said that the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray and NCP Chief Sharad Pawar has been trying to convince Congress of the need to oppose the election of Goa as the United Front, but Congress refused to play ball.
“The proposal we have not addressed.
We feel that the Congress did not give us a decent respect we received,” said Patel.
While the NCP has seen the selection of candidates tasted success in Goa, Shiv Sena had never won the election in the state, either in the body of the city or state assembly.
Benaulim NCP have won seats in the 2017 assembly elections, but Lone NCP MLA, Churchill Alemao, recently claimed to have combine NCP Goa Legislative Assembly in the Trinamool Congress.
“Alemao wants us to have an alliance with the Congress and want assurances that navelim seats will be given to his daughter, while she is demanding for Benaulim seats,” Patel said.
Patel and Raugu said Congress has failed to play a “constructive role” in politics Goa and do not have the initiative after the elections in 2017, which allowed the BJP to form the government.
“In 2017, Congress did not take a constructive role, and we are forced to fight separately.
After the results, the Congress got 17 MLA, we have one, and with GFP we are ready with a letter of support.
Our letters just lie and as a consequence the BJP staked claim and forming the government, “Patel said.