NCP will have to give up Goa LS seat: Congress
Fernandes was addressing a press conference for the first time after he was appointed chief of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee Wednesday.
"The
Congress
High
Command
is
in
favour
of
contesting
both
Lok
Sabha
seats
in
Goa.
We
have
asked
that
the
NCP
be
accommodated
and
be
given
a
seat
in
Maharashtra
because
they
are
our
allies,"
said
Fernandes,
a
two-time
Rajya
Sabha
MP.
The NCP and the Congress have been alliance partners in Goa.
The NCP and the Congress have been alliance partners in Goa, and like in Maharashtra, the two often haggle over seat sharing ahead of both the state as well as national elections.
In the last Lok Sabha polls the Congress officially 'lent' candidate Jitendra Deshprabhu to the NCP, who then contested from the North Goa seat.
Deshprabhu, who joined the NCP for the purpose of the polls, promptly joined his parent Congress party a couple of years after losing the election.
IANS