Newly-appointed State Congress president Balasaheb Thorat on Wednesday said he will try to bring all anti-BJP forces in the state together to forge a united alliance of opposition parties to take on the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the forthcoming assembly elections. “Our effort will be to bring together all parties which respect democratic functioning and are ready to take on anti-secular forces. We will put up a united front of parties for whom democracy and constitution are supreme, ” Thorat said.
Does it mean taking onboard parties Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Agadhi and Raj Thackeray-led MNS ? “During Lok Sabha elections, we could not form an alliance with Vanchit Bahujan Agadhi because of which at least 9 of the Congress-NCP candidates lost. This time, we will make effors to take VBA on board,” he said.