Team Herald
PANJIIM: Goa Forward Party (GFP) has taken serious objection to MGP’s demand for statues of T B Cunha and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia in the Assembly Complex, accusing it of trivialising the important event (Opinion Poll) in Goan history.
“We look at MGP’s demands for statues with great amusement and utter disappointment. Amusement because it’s as if they discovered the word statue after our demand for Dr (Jack) Sequeira’s. The move is out of context and ill-timed. A disappointment because by making this flurry of statue demands, MGP is trying to trivialise and marginalise the most important event in Goan history, and its leaders,” a statement issued by GFP President and Minister Vijai Sardesai said.
MGP on Thursday moved a private members resolution for installation of the two statues.
“It is amusing again that the very name of the party is so rooted in the archaic past, that it has no relevance to today’s Goa or Goemkar, and in stubbornly keeping their name Maharashtrawadi, it seems that they are dreaming and eternally hopeful of another Opinion Poll. After the Opinion Poll, there’s only one wadi in Goa, and that’s Goemkarwadi. How can a party that cannot change its name expected to change the face of Goa?” Sardesai said.
