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PORVORIM: Goa Forward Party (GFP) Chief, Vijai Sardesai said, “what the people of Goa saw in this ‘delayed’ session was a complete farce and disgrace of this government’s idea of democracy. On the 1st day, we saw how the Governor’s was a complete contradiction of the current state of affairs. From coal, to the three linear projects, to online exams, the mismanagement of COVID-19 in the state, and the sale of our river Mhadei – these 3 days of the assembly session has given us clear proof that this government is on a ‘fast track to sell Goa now’.”
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Speaking on the 3rd day of the Assembly session, Sardesai lambasted against the government’s approach to COVID-19, its move towards double tracking and the three linear projects along with the ongoing issue of Mhadei river. The Fatorda MLA said that “the government appointed lawyers have sold Mhadei river in front of the Supreme Court of India” and demanded that those lawyers be withdrawn from the case citing that “these lawyers are not even Goan, and they have sold River Mhadei, which the CM considers more than in mother.”
Commenting on the debate over the Lokayukta Amendment bill, Sardesai said that “this government wants to make the Lokayukta act a toothless tiger, and that if Pramod Sawant goes ahead with Lokayukta Amendment bill, then the BJP will be known as the ‘Bhrastachari Janata Party’.”
During the debates, Sardesai questioned how Sonsoddo has become the centralized facility when there is insufficient land, and what has happened to the seven bio-remediation plants as promised.
Sardesai told the House, “The CM is the chairman of the Goa Solid Waste Management Corporation and signs off the files, which then reach the Urban Development department which says these files do not belong here.”
Speaking on the staff selection bill, Sardesai stated that the “staff selection commission works on a mechanism to assign government jobs based on merit, but this government has completely sought to destroy all mechanisms.”
Further, Sardesai also asked “why the govt has avoided making the announcement of the 10,000 government jobs in the assembly,” and questioned, ‘how the govt will even fulfill its promise of assigning the jobs, in the current financial state that it is in after taking loans to clear off the interest of other previous loans.”
