PANJIM: Alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) have unholy nexus with crony capitalists and are being funded by those who want to destroy Goa for coal and industry; six Congress candidates for the upcoming Goa Assembly polls said that people of Goa will teach a lesson to these parties involved in the horse-trading during the elections.
Congress candidates Yuri Alemao, Sankalp Amonkar, Tony Rodrigues, Sudhir Kandolkar, Rajesh Verenkar and Altone D’Costa on Tuesday stressed that they are loyal to the Congress Party and not ‘saleable commodities’ those fall for money. They expressed confidence that the Congress will form the next government in Goa under the leadership of Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar and former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition Digambar Kamat.
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At a joint press conference, the six candidates claimed that the Congress Party has made great contributions to the development of Goa. The Congress has been actively involved in the liberation movement of Goa and always tried to preserve the identity, environment, culture and heritage of Goa.
“We are protesting against the horse-trading of political parties in Goa today,” said Yuri Alemao.
Sankalp Amonkar said that the people of Goa know that only the Congress Party has acted as a capable opposition in the last 10 years. “Other parties are like the bandits from outside the State. They only use money to buy politicians. These parties are not aware of even a single issue of Goan people,” he said.
Tony Rodrigues said that the leaders who left the Congress Party and joined others are running after money. They have reached the peak of immorality and have betrayed the people. The Congress is a family and by helping each other, we will bring the Congress Party back to power,” he said.
Sudhir Kandolkar said, “People have full faith in Congress. I am sure that Goa will vote for us and we will win with a huge majority. I promise that Congress candidates will not fall prey to the lure of money.” Rajesh Verenkar attacked TMC calling it ‘a party confided to one State’. TMC is playing dirty politics by bringing in a hired agency,” he said. Altone D’Costa said that people will teach a lesson to those who have joined the other parties by betraying them and the Congress. The candidates stated that political outfits with no involvement in Goa’s development are trying to pollute Goa’s environment by taking money from the crony capitalists.
