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PANJIM: Aam Aadmi Party leader Adv Pratima Coutinho on Saturday said that the AAP is the only option for the Goans, who love their land and want to protect Goa.
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Briefing the media persons in city for the first time after joining AAP, she said, “It was not an easy decision for me.”
She disclosed that she got calls from the BJP and Congress leaders from Goa as well as Delhi offering her various positions after it was known that she was quitting the Congress.
“But I did not go by those promises and joined AAP after a two-hour long meeting with Arvind Kejriwal,” she said.
While disclosing that Kejriwal told her that she would be the face of AAP in Goa, she said it was a responsibility given to her to build the party which she said she was willing to do.
“AAP will be built like how I developed the Mahila Congress in Goa by taking up issues affecting the common man,” she said.
Adv Pratima said she was used by the Congress as bonded labourer and asserted that Goa and Goans are her first priority and expressed confidence that AAP will save Goa.
“I joined AAP because of its ideology and because it is a secular party,” she said while pointing out that even Girish Chodankar had said that AAP was growing in the State.
She said Kejriwal has assured her that women will be quite prominent in AAP and added that she would get elected in the upcoming Assembly elections but refrained from naming the constituency.
Replying to a question, Adv Pratima said wait and watch how many more people will join AAP now.
AAP Goa Convenor Rahul Mhambre while welcoming Adv Pratima said her decision has enthused the party members.
He said, “Adv Pratima with her new symbol of Broom will clean the political atmosphere in the State.”
Captain Venzy Viegas urged all the people who love Goa and want to protect it to join AAP.
