MGP yet to decide on keeping tie-up with BJP for Goa polls

Maintaining suspense on carrying forward its alliance with the BJP in the upcoming Goa Assembly polls, Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party today said it will take a call on the issue by December 10, saying all options have been kept open as of now.
"We can't say anything right now. We are in alliance with BJP for the current term. We will announce our strategy for the next (Assembly) election by December 10," MGP chief Dipak Dhavalikar told PTI.
Dhavalikar said the alliance talks with BJP are yet to begin and maintained his party has kept all its options open.
"We have not decided anything. Let the talk begin," he said.

MGP, one of the oldest regional parties in the state, had fought the 2012 Goa polls in alliance with BJP. The current state cabinet has two ministers from MGP.
The party has been in existence since the time Goa was liberated from Portuguese rule and is currently facing some rumbling within the organisation over alliance with BJP.
"We are feeling suffocated in the alliance. BJP did not give us respect during the last five years. This election, BJP will have to sit down and calculate how many seats they would lose without our support," MGP Secretary Apa Teli said.
A section of MGP feels the party should go alone in the polls likely to be held in the first quarter of 2017.