PANJIM: Congress has termed BJP national president Amit Shah’s visit to Goa on Thursday as a move to “market a rotten product”.
If the BJP government had performed well during the last one year at the Centre and three years in the State, they had no need to market it. You don’t require heavy marketing if your product is good,” State Congress President Luizinho Faleiro said.
“Shah is marketing a rotten product. He has to do intensive marketing. A good product is always accepted on demand,” Faleiro said.
Faleiro said Modi was a merchant of dreams which people purchased. “Now at the national and state level people are feeling sad for buying his dreams,” he said and added that the BJP government’s one year in power has been anti-farmer and anti-people.
Meanwhile, the opposition, whose former Home Minister and his son were accused of being allegedly involved in the drug trade nexus, is set to launch a non-political movement to make Goa a “drug free State” in India. The opposition has decided to approach the State government and anti-narcotics cell of Goa police to be part of their campaign – Zero Tolerance to Drugs.
Congress has constituted a five-member team, which has as member spokesperson Sunil Kawthankar, the complainant with CBI and Goa police against former Congress Home Minister Ravi Naik and his son Roy for their alleged politician-police-drug peddler nexus.
The committee will come up with the mission statement, road map and action plan on the project, in the next ten days. “The Congress executive committee has decided to launch a campaign, across party lines, to eradicate the drug menace from the State,” Faleiro said, adding that the campaign will consult stakeholders, civil society, police and political parties, seeking help to make Goa a drug-free State.
The party has also decided to launch a chain campaign in Tiracol village from May 30, protesting the Golf Course and Resort Project in Tiracol by Leading Hotels Pvt Ltd. The party has demanded that all permissions given to the project be scrapped immediately.
The campaign will be launched to protect the rights of tenants and mundkars from the village, whose land have been taken over to benefit one private firm.
