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GF stresses need for Oppn parties' unity to take on BJP

THE GOAN NETWORK | DECEMBER 01, 2022, 11:04 PM IST

MARGAO 

Goa Forward chief Vijai Sardesai on Thursday said he found the ruling BJP and the Revolutionary Goans worried over the party’s decision to join Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo yatra in Indore, Madhya Pradesh earlier this week.

Saying the BJP should understand that the Goa Forward and the Congress are opposition parities in state, he said other opposition parties should understand the need to remain united to take on the BJP.

Interacting with the media on the sidelines of a program at the Old market here on Thursday, December 01, Sardesai the Bharat Jodo yatra is prima facie non-political in nature. 

“I don’t understand why the BJP and the RG are worried over my decision to participate in the yatra. I have not called on Eknath Shinde, neither have I met the BJP-led NDA alliance”, he said, while reminding that the Goa Forward and Congress have been pre-poll alliance  partners, having jointly fought the 2022 Goa Assembly polls.

He added: "I fail to understand why some of the opposition parties too are worried over my participating in the Bharat Jodo yatra. This sounds surprising when we talk of opposition unity”.

Defending his participation in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Goa Forward president said he has expressed his solidarity with the yatra, which has been talking about the ills plaguing the society, including unemployment, inflation, price rise, lack of religious tolerance, crony capitalism et al.

Saying that representatives of the Nationalist Congress party, Shiv Sena, DMK and other parties have also participated in the yatra with Rahul Gandhi, Sardesai said he too decided to participate in the yatra in line with his idea for opposition unity to take on the ruling BJP. 

“The BJP should understand that we are in the opposition. And, the opposition should realise the need to remain united for the simple reason that the BJP had the mandate of just 33  per cent of the people of Goa”, he said, adding that statements made by certain opposition parties have only showed their true colours, who are the BJP plant in the state”.

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