Varca strongman threatens to leave party if it allies with MGP
Nationalist Congress Party on Wednesday ruled out any alliance or understanding with the Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, Goa Vikas Party and Goa Su-Raj Party while pinning its hopes on a possible joining of forces with the Congress.
Speaking at Panaji, NCP Goa president Jose Philip D'Souza stated, "BJP and MGP are very similar vis a vis philosophy and are both fundamentalists. NCP suspects that their supreme motive is division of Goa's social fabric. We will never subscribe to the fundamentalist ideology of MGP-BJP. We will have an alliance only with those having similar agenda for the people of Goa."
Senior leader Churchill Alemao also sought to lay to rest once and for all the rumour of a possible alliance in the making between NCP and MGP.
"I wouldn't have joined NCP if it wasn't secular. MGP is more communal than BJP. I will leave NCP if it allies with MGP," he declared.
He further voiced his opinion that NCP should go with Congress or other political fronts floated by Vijai Sardesai and Atanasio 'Babush' Monserrate, which Alemao believes are like-minded elements.
"Goa Congress president Luizinho Faleiro and AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh still have time to ponder on an alliance with like-minded political elements in consideration of popular sentiment. If not they are helping the BJP-MGP alliance retain power for another term," Alemao observed.
NCP's Nuvem and Cortalim candidates Vincent Rodrigues and Nelly Rodrigues said that NCP wouldn't wish to join hands with any Francisco 'Mickky' Pacheco-led front as these fall in the bracket of 'communal forces'. "MGP and GVP are moving out of the ruling alliance as they know that the BJP can't win power again," Vincent stated.
