Team Herald
PANJIM: The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) on Saturday refuted the allegations made by former MLA Uday Bhembre that the regional party had caused irreparable loss to the State.
Bhembre had stated that the M G Party which came to power after liberation used money and energy to merge Goa with Maharashtra. Due to this, the development in the State took a back seat. He had also blamed the MGP for causing loss to Konkani language by calling it dialect of Marathi and Goa’s identify was at stake. The MGP while in power also failed to take safeguards from the Government of India.
Reacting to it, MGP working president Narayan Sawant said that Goa’s first Chief Minister Dayanand ‘Bhausaheb’ Bandodkar opened schools across the State to educate the people and toiled for the welfare of backward classes. He said that Bandodkar resigned as Chief Minister before Opinion Poll and gladly accepted the Opinion Poll result. He said that even after the Opinion Poll, the people of Goa reposed their faith in Bandodkar. The MGP ruled the State for 17 years, he mentioned.
The MGP leaders claimed that it was due to support extended by MGP that Bhembre won the Assembly election in 1984.