THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday urged Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar to pass order on the disqualification petition filed against 12 MLAs at the earliest.
In a press statement, AAP Goa convener Rahul Mhambre highlighted that how the Speaker has made a mockery of democracy by using delaying tactics to appease both the Congress and BJP that have formed an unholy alliance to defraud people of Goa.
“The Speaker should pass order on the disqualification petition as soon as possible instead of resorting to delaying tactics to give the likely to be disqualified MLAs breathing space to appeal to the Supreme Court and remain in office till the Assembly session is over,” he urged.
The Speaker on Friday concluded the hearing on the disqualification petition filed against ten former Congress MLAs and two MGP ex-legislators, who switched sides and joined BJP in 2019. The order on the petition has been reserved.
Mhambre alleged nexus between the Congress and BJP over the issue, where both are trying to fool the Goans.
“What is happening is against the democratic principles and procedures and the Speaker is just delaying the matter to allow the BJP to continue to be in power,” he said adding that ‘in all probability the Speaker will not give the order before the Assembly term is over.’
“Only God can save Goa,” Mhambre said adding that ‘Goans have been bleeding for a long time now’ and demanded that all those who have betrayed Goa and Goans through the game of defections be taken to task.
