GG News Bureau
Panaji, 19th Jan. The Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena today announced their alliance for the Goa assembly polls together.
NCP leader Praful Patel said, “NCP always supports like-minded parties with secular thoughts. Following this ideology, the MVA government was formed in Maharashtra with Congress and Shiv Sena, which is running smoothly. We wanted the same in Goa.”
“NCP and Shiv Sena will jointly fight Goa polls. We made an offer to Congress to jointly contest Goa polls but in vain. They neither said yes nor no. Congress thinks that it can fight the Goa election alone”, Patel added.
Praful Patel alleged that Congress did not give NCP enough respect by ignoring them.
“Sanjay Raut and CM Uddhav Thackeray also spoke to them in vain. We thought all 3 of us should fight together”, added Patel.
Patel said, “NCP-Shiv Sena alliance would not fight all 40 seats, but a substantial number.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut also confirmed the alliance and said that their alliance would win a considerable number of seats making them a kingmaker.
“If the Congress thinks that it can fight out the election alone, then I wish them luck. Whatever number of seats we fight, we will win many of them and make sure that the government would not be formed without our support”, said Raut.
He said that the first candidate list for the Goa poll is likely to be released tomorrow followed by the other lists.
Raut said, “The situation in Goa is like ‘Aya Ram Gaya Ram’. The term which was first coined for Haryana now symbolizes Goa. Nobody knows who will join which party”.
According to him, the people of Goa are fed up and tied to such political leaders and would vote for them.
Assembly polls will be held on February 14 in Goa. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
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