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AGRA, DECEMBER 19: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) would contest the forthcoming Assembly elections in Bihar, Orissa and Manipur in alliance with non-BJP and non-Congress parties, party general secretary P.A. Sangma said here today.
“It could be the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and the CPI and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha in Bihar,” Sangma told reporters. The party would set up its unit in Uttar Pradesh by December 31, he said.
In reply to a question, Sangma said he had turned against Congress president Sonia Gandhi the moment she staked claim for the post of Prime Minister. “My conscience did not allow me to accept a person not born in India as Prime Minister.” Although Sonia had been made the Congress chief, she had all along maintained that she was not in the race for the prime ministership, he said.
It was wrong to say that anyone who had left the Congress had ended his political career, Sangma said, adding that senior leaders who had left the party like Morarji Desai, Chandra Shekhar, V.P.Singh and I.K. Gujral have proved this observation wrong.
