As BJP 2.0 govt completes one-year in office, have the promises been fulfilled?

Team Herald 

PANJIM: The Pramod Sawant BJP-led government completed its one-year in office of his second consecutive term. 

Ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections, the BJP made a slew of promises from the economy to mining regulations, jobs, crime detection, welfare schemes and housing for all among others things. But have these promises been fulfilled? Are the issues of the people resolved under the BJP 2.0? Has the constant inflation helped anyone besides the government? 

Leader of the Opposition Yuri Alemao said that the Sawant government is not serious and it is only event management government. The government cannot solve Mhadei River dispute and making only promises.

“I had asked about the doles to be given to beneficiaries and pensions. But the government is making wasteful expenditure on events. Several pension schemes and social schemes are pending for months and some for years. We have no expectations from this government,” Alemao said.

Benaulim MLA Venzy Viegas said that for the last one-year the government wore only black suits and called common man as touts, The Goans who are running beach shacks, taxis and those in watersports activities are termed as suits. For the government those loitering in the corridors of power with black suits and sold Goa are not touts but the government is out to finish the business run by the traditional Goans.

Velim MLA Cruz Silva said that he had submitted several proposals to the government and rued that many burning issues are not settled. Either the proposals are pending before the Finance Department or before the Environment Department for clearances.

“I am fighting to construct a retaining wall at Cutbona for the convenience of trawler owners. The demand is pending for last 35 years. But nothing is moving,” Silva said.

Reacting to the Sawant government completing one-year, Quepem MLA Altone D’Costa demanded that the government should stop event management and work for the welfare of the people of Goa.

Meanwhile, on completion of one-year in office, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday released a booklet ‘Transforming Goa’, with a vision to pave a path for Goa to become a progressive State and promote it as a tourism capital of India. 

In his brief speech, Sawant said that his government is committed to meeting the expectations of the people and answering their aspirations in the times to come.