Congress continues to dilly dally on the alliance. PC wants to pull a rabbit out of his hat? Win the Goa elections on own steam? Keep dreaming. The pitch is queered. All the best batsmen in your team cannot defeat a bowler’s pitch.
Aam Aadmi Party has now fought the Panchayat elections and even won a seat. They are, however, hardly sure of even a single LA seat. To overcome this, they have diluted their ‘Professional’ profile of candidates and turned to ‘winning’ candidates. TMC, morally totally wrong to ‘enter the Finals without going through the qualifying rounds’ - please note Goan footballers who joined them will still capture only votes. Both these Parties will eat votes from the Congress. Therefore, an alliance with AAP and Goa Forward is a must. The number of seats shared with these 2 must be in single digits and will take great Political acumen to do so. But they must act now. An alliance with the NCP will throw up family raj which must not be allowed.
Sadly, PC is working in the air with ‘bravado inputs’ from ‘mature leaders’ who are all eyeing a candidature and hence do not want any alliance. His task is cut out: ask the errant 'silent, mature' leaders to showcase their achievements before fighting ' only inside the Party'.
R Fernandes, Margao
