PANJIM: As a part of nation-wide agitation against price rise and mismanagement of administration by the Modi-led BJP government, the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) launched mass awareness campaign “Mhargayecho Jagor” in six Assembly constituencies on Thursday.
The Congress leaders and workers met citizens and educated them on how the present BJP government had caused tremendous inflation and price rise thereby increasing the unemployment and poverty in the country.
Congress leaders started visiting house-to-house distributing pamphlets on how Congress tenure had economic stability and explaining people how Congress government had controlled price rise of petroleum products despite international crude oil price were at all time high.
GPCC president Girish Chodankar along with vice president Dharma Chodankar and Vishwanath Halarnkar led the Congress workers in launching the agitation in Santa Cruz with former MLA Victor Gonsalves, ZP Member Shiny Olieveira and Rudolf Fernandes along with other leaders while in Sant Andre, Block membersd with Mohan Dhond, Tony Fernandes, Savio Monteiro, Anthony Alfonso and, Devsurabhi Yaduvanshi along with various local leaders also joined.
In Panjim, the workers were led by former Minister Sangeeta Parab, Seva Dal chief Shankar Kirlapalkar, CCP councillors Uday Madkaikar, Surendra Furtado, Joel Andrade and former councilor Menino D’Cruz.
