PANJIM: As Congress intensifies its stir against double tracking, the ruling party has asked the opposition to blacken their face for allowing coal handling during their tenure at the Centre.
“The Congress doesn’t attempt to build connect with the people; instead they crave for media publicity, which is why their leaders and office bearers are unnecessarily opposing various projects. People should get their (Congress) face blackened with coal because it was Congress that allowed coal handling while at the Centre,” BJP Goa President Sadanand Shet Tanavade told reporters at a briefing in the party headquarters on Thursday.
The Congress led by its Opposition leader Digambar Kamat had staged demonstrations at South Western Railway Headquarters in Hubli, on Tuesday to protest railway double tracking work from Vasco to Londa. They also submitted a memorandum to the General Manager demanding scrapping of the activity claiming the project will destroy the environment.
Tanavade reiterated that Congress played a major role in introducing the project in Goa. “They are now blaming the BJP. When the former Congress-led government at the Centre had approved the project, it was Digambar Kamat who congratulated his government. Why are they opposing now?” he added.
“It is unfortunate that certain political parties are creating hurdles in the developmental projects,” the BJP president said.
