Team Herald
MARGAO: The BJP government is busy in pleasing the crony capitalists while pushing their agenda of “savkaari” and hence the government don’t understand the hardship of “xetkaris”, said Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Girish Chodankar, on Monday.
“The love of BJP for the ‘rich and mighty’ made BJP State President Sadanand Shet Tanawade politically blind and hence he failed to see hundreds of farmers from all across the State who participated in the anti-farmers protest rally organised by Congress Party at Raj Bhavan,” charged Chodankar while addressing “Kisan Melava” organised by Congress Kisan Cell, at Rivona.
“The Congress Party is committed to resolve the issues faced by the farmers. Our national leader Rahul Gandhi is agitating on the road with the farmers of Punjab and Haryana. We will continue our fight till anti-farmers laws are withdrawn by the government,” stated Chodankar.
“If the BJP government really had some sensitivity towards the farmers than why the Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, who visited Goa last week, did not meet the sugarcane, cashew, areca nut, coconut and paddy growing farmers, to understand the problems faced by them,” questioned Leader of the Opposition Digambar Kamat.
“With no guarantee of minimum support price, the farmers will be left at the mercy of rich business tycoons. The game plan of BJP is to empower the rich and mighty,” he said.
“As the new law has removed onion, potatoes, cereals and pulses from the Essential Commodities list, the prices of these items will be completely under control of the stockists which will lead to sky rocketing of rates,” warned Kamat.
“The oldest ally of BJP from Punjab Akali Dal has now resigned from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) protesting against the new farm law. The BJP leaders must introspect on the same and learn the lessons,” said Kamat.
South Goa Member of Parliament Francisco Sardinha charged that the insensitive BJP government’s lack of concern for the poor people was exposed when Prime Minister Narendra Modi admitted in Lok Sabha that his government was not having any data of the migrants who died on the way while walking miles and miles returning back to their homes after the nationwide COVID-19 pandemic induced lockdown was announced. The anti-people BJP is living in the virtual world of glorifying Modi and hence can’t hear the cries of common man.
“The Congress Party created projects such as railways, telecommunications and roadways after the Independence and worked hard to develop connectivity all across the country. It is during the Congress regime that ‘Green Revolution’ and ‘White Revolution’ took place which boosted the agriculture sector and energised the farmers. Institutions like AIIMS, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, SAIL, IIM etc were established by the Congress government with long terms vision,” stated Sardinha.
