Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji

Panaji, Dec 16: President of the Goa state Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Jose Philip D’Souza urged for unity among the opposition parties to bring down the BJP in the 2022 assembly elections. “The zilla panchayat elections have shown that the opposition parties need to be united to bring about a change on the political horizon in the state,” D’Souza said reacting to the results.

“Strike rate of NCP was 25%, far far better than Congress, as one candidate won out of the four fielded by NCP,” he said. Referring to the assembly elections of 2017, Jose Phillip said that the Congress was not all that thrilled of forming an alliance with other parties to overthrow BJP. “Even when we went to Delhi to meet their top leaders, we had seen their attitude,” he said. He maintained if political parties know they do not have a chance of victory, they should be practical and not contest for more seats.