Team Herald
MARGAO: If the BJP is in power in the state, the congressmen who assisted that party and are still supporting it, have an invaluable role, declared AAP Convener Elvis Gomes at a well-attended ‘hear the people’ meeting early morning at Cuddegal in Sanguem Taluka. Speaking to a group of workers laid off by a mine owner for whom they were working, Elvis described how some ‘pseudo congressmen’ had put Parrikar in power in 2000 and the role of many who were sustaining him with unprincipled defections.
Elvis also severely castigated the BJP for having kept Goa under a spell of lies and deception for the past many years and said that a party like BJP had proved to be a misfit in the Goan context where religion of unity and harmony carries a greater weight than an individual’s religion. He said people in talukas such as Sanguem, Quepem, Canacona , Sattari were kept economically backward and deprived of the most basic facilities such as good quality Education and basic health care, water and electricity.
