Assembly undermining by govt to be GFP’s major issue in 2022 polls: Vijai

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Panaji

Stating that the government has made a total farce of the forthcoming monsoon session of the Goa legislative assembly by manipulating the notified minutes of the Business Advisory Committee meeting and curtailing the 10-day session to only three days, the president of the Goa Forward Party Vijai Sardesai on Tuesday said that his party will make undermining of assembly by the government its major issue for the 2022 state assembly polls.

“Nowhere in the legislative history of the country has the state budget been passed by the government without carrying out deliberations and debates on it,” he added, pointing out, “Demands for various government departments have been crammed in the three days of the monsoon session, in addition to 40 Bills to be tabled in the House including one on state mining corporation, which needs detailed discussion on it, or else has to be referred to the select committee of the House.”

Addressing a press conference along with his party legislators, Vinod Paliencar and Jayesh Salgaonkar, in the city on the eve of the monsoon session of the state legislative assembly, Sardesai retorted that the government has neither time nor inclination to carry out deliberations with the elected members of the Goa assembly, but easily accepts challenge to participate in a debate with the MLA of another state, on the issue of providing free power to Goans.

“The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party are both wheeler-dealer parties and their political model as well as business model are same, which is suppressing the Goans and promoting outsiders,” the GFP president said, questioning that if the crowds recently gathered to welcome the BJP national president J P Nadda and the supporters of BJP and AAP present during the power debate were safe from corona virus, then what is the rationale behind restricting the monsoon assembly session for only 3 days by citing the pandemic as the reason.

Sardesai also maintained that if he becomes the power minister after the 2022 state assembly election, his party will not give free power to Goans, which is produced from fossilised fuel like coal, but provide them with highly subsidised green energy by setting up solar farms on government lands. “We will also make it compulsory for the industries in Goa to use solar power,” he assured.

Alleging that the government does not want to discuss the issues of public importance like closure of mining operations in Goa, diversion of Mhadei waters by Karnataka and the mounting public debt on the state, the GFP president stated that the government wants to divert the attention of the people from thousands of COVID-19 deaths occurred in the state due to the scarcity of oxygen, and considerable damage caused by the recent floods to the Goan population.  

“The BJP and democracy are two opposite entities and don’t go together,” he observed, informing that his party will meet the Congress legislature party on Tuesday to discuss floor co-ordination for the monsoon session of the state assembly.

Sardesai also condemned the recent act of demolishing a church in South Delhi, stating that no one has right to pull down a religious prayer house, and the government could have shifted it to another location through mutual consent.

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