TEAM HERALD
MARGAO: A group of Congressmen from Cuncolim, including ex-district general secretary of Youth Congress Siddharth P Kambli has demanded the immediate removal of former MLA Joaquim Alemao’s PA Assiz Norohna as Cuncolim Block Committee president and appointment of a new president.
The group has also opposed the plans of Joaquim Alemao to return to Cuncolim, saying that the people of Cuncolim had rejected Alemao in the last Assembly polls. They have threatened to work against the Congress party nominee in the coming Lok Sabha polls if the High Command fails to take cognisance of their grievances.
Addressing the media, Kambli said the appointment of Assiz Norohna is entirely the decision of the Congress party president without consulting the party grassroots workers. “As the Congress party is aware of the ground reality that Alemao family has been rejected by the Goan voters by defeating all the four Alemaos in Benalium, Navelim, Cuncolim and Sanguem due to family raj”, he said.
Taking strong exception to the statement by Norohna that the Cuncolim block Congress has drawn up plans to strengthen the Congress under the leadership of Joaquim Alemao, Kambli reminded Norohna that Congress workers do not require his plans to strengthen the party under Alemao. “If you are so capable of strengthening the Congress block in Cuncolim, what caused the defeat of Joaquim Alemao when you have been the PA to Alemao for the last four years,” he questioned the newly-appointed block president.
He said the people of Cuncolim constituency will not allow outsiders to step in Cuncolim to set up their political missions. “We will not allow the Congress leadership to dump unwanted elements on the people,” he said, while demanding removal of Norohna as block president.
