Goa Rajiv Congress Party

Goa Rajiv Congress Party
LeaderWilfred de Souza
FounderWilfred de Souza
Founded1998
Dissolved1999
Split fromIndian National Congress
Merged intoNationalist Congress Party
ECI Statusdissolved party
AllianceNational Democratic Alliance
Election symbol

Goa Rajiv Congress Party (GRCP), was a splinter group of Indian National Congress in Goa. It was founded in 1998 by Wilfred de Souza. It formed a coalition state government with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, with de Souza as Chief Minister. In the split from INC de Souza took with him several local branches of the Congress party and the entire Youth Congress and National Students Union of India (Congress student wing) branches in the state.

Ahead of the Goa assembly elections 1999 GRCP launched 14 candidates, out of whom two were elected (Wilfred de Souza and Francis D'Souza). In total the party received 36 570 votes. Shortly after the elections GRCP merged with Nationalist Congress Party.

Francis de Souza left NCP to rejoin the INC 5 November same year. He later joined BJP.

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