The AAP and Goa Forward Party (GFP) on Sunday announced their pre-poll alliance, “Goa First”, for the 2027 assembly elections in the coastal state, offering what they described as a non-BJP, non-Congress alternative to voters.
“The people of Goa want a change. Goa First will form the government. “It is a matter of great regret that our Rajya Sabha MPs left the party. They betrayed the party. Kejriwal cited his party’s experience in Delhi, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir and Gujarat to claim that its elected representatives had remained loyal to AAP despite alleged attempts to engineer defections.
Because such a thing has never happened in the Aam Aadmi Party before, “We believe that this is a lesson for us. In the current 40- seat Goa legislative assembly, AAP has two MLAs while GFP has one. Sardesai’s party was an alliance partner of Congress in 2022 elections.
We will win on our own,” Kejriwal said at the press conference in the presence of GFP president Vijai Sardesai, Delhi’s Leader of Opposition and AAP’s Goa desk in-charge Atishi and others. The party sent them to the Rajya Sabha; the people did not send them,” Kejriwal said. From now onwards, before sending anyone to the Rajya Sabha, we will scrutinise the person thoroughly and ensure that he is the right person,” he said. He said the party has one MLA in J&K and five in Gujarat. In Gujarat, he said, one of the party’s MLAs had resigned, but AAP defeated the BJP in the subsequent by-election. “Wherever our elected representatives are, none of them has betrayed the people,” Kejriwal said.
