Congress and Goa Forward Party on Saturday, December 18, announced their pre-poll alliance for Goa Elections 2022
Gomantak Times
Congress and Goa Forward Party on Saturday, December 18, announced their pre-poll alliance for the upcoming state legislative assembly election.
Dinesh Gundu Rao, the Congress desk in charge for the Assembly election in Goa, made the announcement after a meeting with Vijai Sardesai. Speaking to media persons, Rao said: "After Vijai Sardesai met our leader Rahul Gandhi in Delhi and expressed his support to the Congress saying that he wants to work with us to defeat the communal and corrupt BJP government in Goa and to bring about a change in Goa, we welcomed his move," Rao said.
'We will be going to the elections together and I expect that this alliance along with many other people who will be joining the congress, will give stable formulation in the state," he added.
When asked how many seats his party would contest, Rao said that the seat-sharing deal will be announced at a later stage.
"Whatever had happened in the past has happened in the past. In politics, there is always scope for friendship, alliances and we have mutual trust and confidence in each other."
Goa Forward Party President Vijai Sardesai said that the alliance will liberate Goa from the Autocratic government. "On the eve of Goa's liberation day, we will give alliance that will liberate that state from autocratic government.
We have a government in Goa that is in the politics of acquisitions and takeovers that is poisoning democracy and there is a need to start a new liberation movement to re-liberate Goa from this corrupt, communal BJP.
Sardesai said that the people of Goa are against the BJP, but elected representatives are joining that because of the "high-handedness of the central leadership of the party.
"We are sure that political strategists who are of the view that any alternative to BJP cannot be done without a Congress as principal opposition party, he said adding that this is also the view of poll strategist Prashant Kishor.