While there is long debate and discussion on the mahagatbandhan issue, the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Luizinho Faleiro has been sitting on the fence watching the match.
What is Faleiro’s concern is that how reliable could the alliance partners be if they come to power?
“You have seen what Modi has done in Arunachal and Uttarakhand. The alliance partners can breakaway,” Luizinho says.
He says like the former UPA government at the Centre, Congress would like to form a strong government in Goa uniting with like-minded secular forces under its leadership.
“Goa being a small State needs unity of like-minded secular forces. Those who want a better and stable government should join hands and come under Congress. Under Congress leadership elections should be fought,” he stated.
Refusing to come to a closure on the alliance, Faleiro said by September 30, the Pradesh Congress Committee will decide whether it wants a grand alliance. “My mission is to win the election with unity of secular forces under Congress,” he stated.
Faleiro also claimed that Congress lost the 2012 elections because it went on distributing tickets to alliance partners and as a result, the party base in those areas weakened.
It’s clear that, though the Congress is not spelling this out explicitly, if they don’t contest maximum sets, their chances of having their own MLAs drastically reduces.
