PANJIM: Accusing the BJP government of indulging in political infighting and drama, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday said Goans are gasping to death every day.
Reminding that AAP had highlighted the turf war between CM Sawant and HM Rane multiple times, AAP’s State convenor Rahul Mhambre said, “Our worst fears that this friction would ultimately cost lives, has now come true.”
Pointing out that the GMC Nodal officer has now officially admitted the oxygen shortage in the High Court, Mhambre regretted that hundreds of valuable Goan lives could have been saved if AAP’s continuous SOS alerts on the oxygen crisis had been heeded.
“The Health Minister’s curious demand for a HC investigation into his own department’s functioning, and Atanasio Monserrate’s unsolicited statements and demand for a CBI investigation, were all just acts in the political tiatr that the Bharatiya Janata Party is orchestrating to divert people’s attention from its govt’s dismal failures,” he charged.
He demanded to know, if Rane knew of serious issues that warranted a HC investigation, then why did he stay silent all this while as hundreds of people died under his watch.
Mhambre questioned Monserrate’s sudden concern for the spiralling COVID crisis, when he was mum about the super-spreader casinos in his own constituency.
He ridiculed CM Sawant for taking a photography crew instead of the Health Minister with him during the visit to COVID wards yesterday. Accusing the CM of using the visit only as a photo-op, Mhambre alleged that the CM never had any intention of actually solving the issues.
“This was proved by his shocking abdication of responsibility for the oxygen shortage when he blamed the trolley drivers for delay in oxygen reaching the hospitals”, Mhambre charged.
Mhambre slammed the BJP government and sought the intervention of the Governor to keep people of Goa abreast of the situation at government hospitals as people have lost confidence in Sawant and his cabinet.
