The Goa Forward Party (GFP) has “in-principle” united to an alliance with the Congress for the 2022 assembly polls, GFP president Vijai Sardesai has said.
GFP was an area of the BJP-led NDA till April this year, once that it split and has since been a vocal critic of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
“We are in talks with the Congress leadership for an extended time, proposing that everyone like forces ought to come back against the BJP. So, in principle, we've got agreed for an alliance,” Sardesai, the previous Goa deputy chief minister, said whereas reproval a media house.
He, however, other than the alliance is, however, to be formalised and modalities have to be compelled to be worked out.
In April 2021, Sardesai had declared the GFP’s formal withdrawal from the NDA, shooting off a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, speech communication there's “no area for reconsideration”.
Sardesai explained that the alliance had effectively completed 2 years before that in March 2019, once Sawant assumed office.
“We are critical of the BJP’s ideology. the sole reason we have a tendency to allied with them was thanks to Manohar Parrikar and his vision. however since his demise, the party has done nothing for Goa,” Sardesai said.
sooner than the 2017 assembly polls in Goa, Sardesai’s GFP had LED a heightened anti-BJP campaign.
Once the results were announced, Congress emerged because the largest party winning seventeen seats, however, the GFP went ahead and supported the BJP and every one of its 3 MLAs, together with Sardesai, were created ministers within the Parrikar government.
This move of siding with the BJP was wide criticised by several of the GFP’s own members and supporters.
However, once Sawant was made the CM, following Parrikar’s demise, all 3 MLAs of the GFP were ousted from the cabinet.
In could this year, the GFP and also the Congress oppose the Margao Municipal Council polls along and won the president and vice-chairperson posts.