BICHOLIM: Even as the opposition Congress is all set to taken on the ruling BJP in the three days budget session, the special CLP meeting of the congress decided to strongly demand for extension of the session from three to a minimum of ten days.
Today a special CLP meeting was held at Hotel D’Leela at Mulgao in Bicholim to chalk out the plan and discuss the questions to be raised during the upcoming session to begin from tomorrow.
“This is the first time that our CLP meeting is held in a rural taluka of North Goa. This is because we thought that if such meetings are held in talukas then we would be able to know the problems of those talukas” opposition leader, Chandrakant (Babu) Kavlekar told adding “today’s meeting was to discuss the budget planning as to how we can confront the BJP and for floor co-ordination.”
He said they wanted the session to be extended and only three days session is very short. “We have always demanded that from this three-day session nothing fruitful will come out. There are some serious issues facing Goans and we would not get any time to discuss on these issues” Kavlekar told.
He said that government has not done anything for the people who are affected by mining. “They are just playing with the mining dependents by giving assurances and besides this they are not doing anything. Besides this there are several issues haunting Goans and to discuss this we needed some more days in the session. We strongly denounce this act of the BJP as we feel that opposition should be given enough time to put forth their questions before the government.” Kavlekar told.
Kavlekar said Goa is going back on all fronts. “BJP is afraid that opposition would target them for doing nothing and totally failing on all fronts and this is the only reason that this session has been kept very short. “We will still demand in the assembly that the session should be extended. Tomorrow is the session but BJP has not given us answers we have raised. When should we study the cross questioning? There are six-star questions submitted by each of our MLAs as it is just two days session but still there is no reply. We would have got a chance to see what government has done and we would have given some extra suggestions in those matters” he stated.
Alex Reginald said that there are several issues including the coal issue, Port Trust issue, garbage issue, CRZ issue, tourism policy and hoard of issues which should have been discussed in the assembly but they would not get any time to do this.
“This is a systematic dictatorship that government is trying to impose on the people. We as opposition are not going to keep quiet and allow this government to do whatever they want. On mining they should come out clean. There is rampant corruption in the state. DGP has built a bungalow in the state and we need to know who is benefited because of this high-level corruption among the senior officers.” Alex told.
“We will put forth a constructing opposition during the session and in the general interest of the people” Alex explained.
