Team Herald
PANJIM: Bharatiya Janata Party will observe June 26 as a black day in the history throughout the country. BJP leader and former minister Rajendra Arlekar said the party will observe a black day on June 26, it being the day former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared Emergency in 1975.
“Whoever opposed the government was put behind bars under different acts then,” he said. Arlekar said that today the same Congress is talking of freedom of speech and freedom of press. “We will bring out to people how Congress killed democracy,” he said.
Arlekar further said that the BJP National General Secretary V Muralidhar Rao will be in Goa on the occasion.
The BJP also condemned the statement by GPCC president Girish Chodankar that CM Manohar Parrikar should resign following his treatment in US. “The Chief Minister is doing well and as per advice by his doctors in US. Girish need not worry about that,” BJP secretary Sadanand Shet Tanawade said, adding that the CM is really busy with the work of resolving various issues like mining resumption.
Tanawade said that Chodankar should worry about keeping his own MLAs firmly in the saddle. “Most Congress MLAs have met Parrikar after his return, this I guess Girish is not aware of,” he said.
