Patna, July 09: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) general secretary Jagannath Mishra today hailed the statement of Congress president Sonia Gandhi that her party was open to entering into electoral alliances with secular parties to defeat the BJP and its other NDA allies in the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress president's decision was in tune with the requirements of present day politics, Mishra, a former chief minister of Bihar, told reporters.
Now that the Congress has expressed its readiness to forge alliances with secular parties, it should go for pre-poll alliances as all post-poll arrangements are born out of political compulsions, he said.
This will, apart from sending right signals to the electorate, curb political opportunism, he said.
Gandhi had declared in her closing address in the Shimla brainstorming session that the congress was prepared to enter into appropriate electoral and coalition arrangements to defeat the BJP and its allies in the coming general elections. Bureau Report