PANJIM: Congress Party on Tuesday stated that the failed and defective government under Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has no right to continue in power after receiving repeated blows from the High Court of Bombay at Goa on various issues.
Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) spokesman Adv Shrinivas Khalap alleged that the BJP government has turned into a garbage dump with its filthy administration and demanded that Sawant must step down immediately.
Khalap was referring to the order of the Bombay High Court at Goa in which the court has pulled up the BJP government for hounding a whistleblower for exposing the dumping of raw sewage into water bodies by the Sewage and Infrastructure Development Corporation in Panjim.
“It is a shame for Sawant to get strictures from the High Court which asked the government whether its departments have “no other work” than to pursue a case from 2012 to 2021 against a whistleblower,” he said.
While hearing the case pertaining to quashing of the FIR against the public-spirited citizen, the Division Bench asked whether it was the “attitude” of the government to “file criminal cases” against anybody who points out its faults. The issue highlighted by the whistleblower is in “public interest” and should be addressed, the court had said.
The court’s remarks of “If raw sewage is being discharged in water bodies, then governments whole energies should be focused on treating that issue rather than going against one staff nurse from Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB)” exposes the irresponsible and careless attitude of the BJP government about health care, charged Adv Khalap.
“We are happy that the High Court questioned the government on vigilance inquiry initiated against the whistle blower for raising issue of public health. The remarks of the court have also exposed the vendetta politics of BJP against all those who raise their voices against illegalities, mismanagement and corruption of the government,” he said.
Khalap said that it is shocking that BJP government hounded the whistle blower instead of taking action to stop raw sewage being discharged and demanded that immediate action must be taken to stop the flow of sewage in open.
