Senior Congress leader and Party’s All India General Secretary, Madhusudan Mistri ruled out possibility of any big alliance with other political outfits here in Uttar Pradesh like the one they went in Bihar during last by-polls. He even hailed the divorce of the Party with the National Congress Party (NCP)) and said that it would benefit the Party in the long run.
‘’It is after a generation or now for last over two decades that Congress will be seen in the entire 280 assembly seats in Maharastra. I appreciate such move by the Congress though it was somehow late,’’ he stated while welcoming the move of going it alone in Maharastra. Talking to reporters here on Monday afternoon, Mistri said that the Party had anticipated well 3 months back about the possibility of contesting the elections alone, so we were prepared for any eventuality. ‘’We announced candidates in 178 seats so that no one can blame us for the breaking of the alliance but had asked the state Congress unit to be prepared for giving candidates in the remaining seats,’’ he disclosed.
Mistri claimed that this divorce with NCP would give them a good chance to spread Party’s base once again across Maharastra and not just in few areas. ‘’It would be a good opportunity for the Congress that after 20 years, party flag would be seen in most constituencies of western Maharastra and particularly in Nasik and Thane,’’he added.
Meanwhile, denying that there is any move for a Bihar like alliance in UP, Mistri said that in UP Congress will go alone and presently the party will revive its base. ``I heard everyone saying that Congress is no where in UP so we would work hard, re-establish the Party and would also go alone in the elections in near future to show that we still have strength to regain the peoples confidence”, Mistri asserted. When he was asked that recently, Congress legislative Party (ClP) leader, Pradeep Mathur advocated for alliance of the Party with other Political Parties like they went in Bihar, Mistri, outrightly rejected it saying that Party’s high command think otherwise.
