AAP, Trinamool Will Be "Marginal Players" In 2022 Goa Polls: P Chidambaram
NDTV
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram asserted that the Trinamool Congress' entry into the 2022 Goa assembly polls "appears to be an imposition from the top that is based in West Bengal".
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) will be "marginal players" in the Goa assembly polls and the Congress is best positioned to defeat the BJP and form the next government, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said today.
Mr Chidambaram, who is the Congress' senior election observer for the assembly polls next year, asserted that the Trinamool Congress' entry into Goa "appears to be an imposition from the top that is based in West Bengal" and said he does not know the Mamata Banerjee-led party's motive in trying to start a unit in Goa by "encouraging defections" from other parties.
In an interview with PTI, Mr Chidambaram said any alliance with smaller parties for the Goa assembly polls is only possible if a party accepts that the Congress will be the pivot of the non-BJP formation.
"Goa is one of the five states going to elections early next year. All states are equally important and, in that sense, Goa is important. Congress and the people of Goa have had a long and special bond. Congress understands that Goa, Goans and Goa's way of life are unique," the Rajya Sabha member said.
