He said the Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, had attempted to stage a controversial drama ‘Me Nathuram Godse Boltey’ eulogizing the assassin of the Father of the Nation, on Gandhi Jayanti last year.
He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s U-turn on the commemoration of Gandhi’s birth anniversary and on the patriotism of Indian Muslims should once and for all stop the BJP accusing secular politicians of appeasement of minorities.
The Independent MLA referred to the irregular appointments of Awal Karkuns, which he had initially exposed and for which assurance of a thorough probe setting matters straight was given. Sadly, he said the scam was allowed to take place as the beneficiaries were related to ruling legislators.
Sardesai said the Tourism Dept/GTDC going ahead with the junkets in Moscow in the last week and in Japan, beginning Sunday, was a waste of funds in the name of tourism promotion.
Drawing attention to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of a nationwide cleanliness campaign from this Gandhi Jayanti, he said his ‘Fatorda Chak-a-Chak’ campaign already began a week ago.
He however hoped that the neighbouring constituencies and their MLAs who had worked to make NaMo the PM would at least now, educate their voters who were rampantly involved in dumping garbage in his constituency by the roadside. He lamented that even after completion of half the term of the present government, the high profile technology centered garbage treatment plants, that were the subject matter of many junkets, were yet to see the light of day.
