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Congress cannot win Goa polls by itself: Shiv Sena

By way of PTI

NEW DELHI: The Shiv Sena is dissatisfied at being given a chilly shoulder by means of the Congress over its proposal to copy the Maharashtra coalition experiment within the Goa Meeting elections.

Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut on Thursday stated the political scenario it Goa is such that the Congress can’t transcend unmarried digit if it contests the meeting polls within the coastal state by itself.

“The Congress has simplest 3 MLAs in Goa. The birthday celebration’s MLAs have abandoned it enmasse. Key political events, we (Shiv Sena and NCP) had introduced to make stronger the Congress in its tricky occasions. However I have no idea what the Congress is pondering. It can’t move the one digit mark if it contests by myself,” Raut instructed journalists right here.

Raut, who had held a spherical of discussions with AICC in-charge of Goa Dinesh Gundurao, CLP chief Digambar Kamat and Goa Congress leader Girish Chodankar, stated he had positioned a suggestion that the Congress contest on 30 of the 40 meeting seats and go away the remainder for its allies.

He stated the ten meeting seats, the place Congress has no longer received elections prior to now 50 years, may well be allotted to Shiv Sena, NCP and Goa Ahead Birthday celebration.

Raut, a Rajya Sabha member, stated Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was once beneficial to the theory of an alliance however the native Congress management had a special view.

Raut stated the Shiv Sena was once able to make stronger the candidature of former Goa Leader Minister Manohar Parrikar’s son Utpal will have to he come to a decision to take the political plunge within the meeting polls.

“Utpal has to take the brave determination to contest the elections. You wish to have to be brave to contest elections. If he’s taking that call, the Shiv Sena will make stronger him,” Raut stated.

Raut recalled that the Shiv Sena had supported the circle of relatives of Lok Sabha member from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Mohan Delkar, who was once discovered useless in a Mumbai resort closing 12 months.

Delkar’s spouse Kalaben Delkar received the Lok Sabha bypoll as a Shiv Sena candidate.

Utpal had evinced passion in contesting the meeting polls from Panaji, a constituency represented by means of his father and four-term Goa Leader Minister Manohar Parrikar.

Utpal had additionally met House Minister Amit Shah on this regard.

Goa is going to polls on February 14.