On eve of polls MGP pulls out of Congress govt in Goa

January 31, 2012 11:34

The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party has decided to withdraw from the Congress-led government in Goa ahead of the assembly polls on March 3. Narayan Sawant, working president of the state's oldest regional outfit, told reporters today that the party will no longer be part of the ruling alliance that also includes the Nationalist Congress Party. The MGP will either go alone or forge a pre-poll alliance with main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, he said.

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