Cong wants to contest North Goa LS seat

PANJIM, JAN 11
Divisions seem to be surfacing in the Congress and NCP in Goa with both allies announcing their decision to contest the North Goa Lok Sabha seat.
Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Subhash Shirodkar on Friday announced his party’s decision to field a candidate from the seat, just two days after NCP President Sharad Pawar said his party would contest from the constituency.
Asked about Pawar’s announcement, Shirodkar said the NCP chief’s statement was meant ‘only for public consumption’.
He said the Congress had been preparing to contest the North Goa seat and even discussed names of two-three probable candidates.
In the last Parliamentary elections, the North Goa seat was contested by NCP while South Goa was given to Congress.
Shirodkar said it was premature to talk about seat-sharing at this point of time.
‘It is too premature. Let’s wait till the end of February. Nothing has been decided yet,’ he said.
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