TEAM HERALD
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CANACONA: NCP State leader and former revenue minister Jose Philip D’Souza has hit out at Congress for criticizing NCP’s zero presence in the Goa assembly.
He was speaking after inaugurating NCP’s Canacona constituency office at Agonda.
“No doubt we did not win any assembly seat in the last assembly elections and this issue is not for Congress to be worried with. Instead Congress should be more concerned in understanding its own house, it has fared much worse than what NCP lost in last assembly elections,” stated D’Souza.
He was reacting to GPCC President Subhash Shirodkar’s reported comment that since NCP has no representation, entering into pre-Lok Sabha poll elections with NCP in Goa and allotting one of the seats in North Goa to NCP is out of the question.
Earlier, D’Souza in the presence of their local leader Sapnesh Dessai and Canacona Block Committee members inaugurated NCP office at Agonda.
Speaking further, D’Souza criticized the deteriorating law and order in the State.
“What is the status of law and order if foreign visitors can hold the administration to ransom by resorting to road blockade? Given the upper hand, with which Nigerians attacked a police escorted hearse van, damaged it, brought out a body and laid it on the road and staged a ‘rasta roko’ on highway, is nothing less than the breakdown of law and order machinery of the State,” D’Souza stated.
Speaking about NCP’s resurrection in the State, D’Souza informed that seven block committees including those at Canacona, Margao, Fatorda, Vasco and Cortalim are already formed and are functioning effectively.
D’Souza said strategies are being formulated at grass root level to ensure that the NCP makes a comeback in the State and said that the party will definitely make a comeback to the assembly in the future.
