The NCP on Tuesday said that the party will not forge an alliance with the Congress for the upcoming assembly elections in Goa. NCP said that it will fight the elections together with Shiv Sena. This will be the first time that NCP and Shiv Sena will contest elections together in Goa.
NCP’s Praful Patel and Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut are currently in Goa to finalize the alliance. By holding a meeting, both the parties can announce who will contest elections together on how many seats.
Actually, there was an idea to repeat the Maharashtra alliance experiment in Goa, but the Congress probably refused to do so, which the NCP confirmed on Tuesday. NCP leader Patel said, ‘Congress says that they can win elections in Goa on their own but can’t get a single seat.’
It is noteworthy that NCP leader and minister in Maharashtra government Nawab Malik had said on Monday that we wanted to contest elections in Goa with Congress but due to some local leaders the alliance could not be done. On January 18, our general secretary and a minister will go to Goa to talk about the alliance. But now the NCP has announced that it will not forge an alliance with the Congress in Goa.
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In the 2017 assembly elections, Congress and BJP contested on 36 seats each. Out of these, Congress had won 17 and BJP had won 13 seats. On the other hand, Goa Forward Party (GFP) contested on four seats and won three seats. Apart from this, the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) contested 34 seats, although it won only three seats. Apart from this, 3 seats went to the account of independent candidates and one seat went to the account of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Elections to 40 assembly seats in Goa will be held in a single phase. Goa will go to polls on February 14 while the results will be out on March 10. Nominations will start on January 21. January 28 will be the last date for nominations. In view of the Corona epidemic, the Election Commission has prepared strict protocols this time. According to this, no rally, road show and padyatra will be allowed till January 15.
