VASCO: All appears not to be in order in the Mormugao Municipal Council as the promise to provide an able and stable council apparently turns to be ‘hollow’ with political games having already started in the Port town, allege Vascoites.
Mormugao Municipal Council’s Shami Salkar was the first councillor to condemn the political games played in her ward.
Salkar said that she is capable and has been doing the civic work in her ward and there is absolutely no reason for some third person to just click pictures at the spot and claim the credit for the work.
On Sunday, a Vasco-based NGO Goa First’s head Parshuram Sonurlekar posted mixed-waste pile pictures from the chicken market and highlighted the urgency to attend to this issue immediately before it becomes a home for the vectors to spread diseases as the monsoon has arrived in Goa.
Following that post on the social media, councillor Salkar called up Chief Officer Jayant Tari and put forth this matter before him. Tari assured her to get it cleared the next day. Later, Salkar along with the Mormugao Municipal Council’s chairperson Damodar Kaskar, supervised the chicken market’s cleaning work carried out by the municipal workers on Monday.
“One person who lost against me in the municipal election is now trying to take credit for the work done by me as a Ward 13 councillor. People have elected me seeing my husband’s work as councillor for three terms since I worked along with him and people of Vasco are well aware of this. Therefore I don’t see any reason for a third person to interfere in my work,” Salkar said.
She further mentioned that she will not remain silent on such political games and will raise this issue during the next council meeting since “it is the question of her dignity.”
